Perunthevanar was a Tamil poet who lived during the
Third sangam
The Third Sangam (Tamil: மூன்றாம் சங்கம், ''Moondram Sangam'') (Malayalam: മൂന്നാം സംഘം, ''Moonnam Sangam'') or the Third Academy, also known as the Madurai College of Antiquity, was a historical ...
of Tamil. He is a renowned poet who translated Mahabharata to Tamil.
Poems and works
He had written many poems which was combined in the sangam literature. He had written the poems of Agananuru's 51st poem, Natrinai's 83rd poem and Kurunthokai's 255th poem.
He wrote the Kadavul vazhthu for the sangam literatures such as
Purananuru
The ''Purananuru'' (, literally "four hundred oemsin the genre puram"), sometimes called ''Puram'' or ''Purappattu'', is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (''Ettuthokai'') in the Sangam literatu ...
,
Agananuru,
Ainkurunuru,
Natrinai etc. Perunthevanar is the great poet who translated
Mahabharatha
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the '' Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Ku ...
to Tamil.
Perunthevanar is also renowned by the Tamils as "Bharatham paadiya Perunthevanar"
References
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Tamil poets