Neṭunalvāṭai
__NOTOC__ ''Neṭunalvāṭai'' ( ta, நெடுநல்வாடை, ''lit''. "good long north wind", metonymically "cold season") is an ancient Tamil poem in the Sangam literature. Also referred to as ''Nedunalvadai'', it is a blend of a love and war story, highlighting the pains of separation of a queen waiting for her lover to return from the distant war. Authored by Nakkirar, it is the seventh poem in the '' Pattuppāṭṭu'' anthology. The poem is generally dated to the late classical period (2nd to 4th century CE). Nedunalvadai contains 188 lines of poetry in the ''akaval'' metre. It is a poem of complex and subtle artistic composition, its vividness and language has won it many superlatives, including one by the Tamil literature scholar Kamil Zvelebil, as "the best or one of the best of the lays of the angambardic corpus". According to G. John Samuel, the "Netunalvatai belongs to the great corpus of ancient classical erotic poems of the world which include the beaut ...
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Nakkirar I
Nakkirar I (c. 250 BCE) was a poet of the Sangam period, who composed anthologies including the Neṭunalvāṭai. He also wrote verse 7 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. See also * Sangam literature * List of Sangam poets * Tiruvalluva Maalai Tiruvalluva Maalai (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவ மாலை), literally 'Garland of Valluvar', is an anthology of ancient Tamil paeans containing fifty-five verses each attributed to different poets praising the ancient work of the K ... Notes References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakkirar I Tamil philosophy Tamil poets Scholars from Tamil Nadu Tiruvalluva Maalai contributors Sangam poets ...
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