Aintinai Eḻupatu (), is a Tamil poetic work belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts (''Patiṉeṇkīḻkaṇakku'') anthology of

Tamil literature Tamil literature includes a collection of literary works that have come from a tradition spanning more than two thousand years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even longer period of evolution. Contributors to the T ...

, belonging to the post- Sangam period corresponding to between 100–500 CE. ''Aintinai Eḻupatu'' contains seventy poems written by the poet Muvathiyaar. The poems of ''Aintinai Eḻupatu'' deals with the subjective (''agam'') concepts. ''Agam'' in the

Sangam literature The Sangam literature (Tamil language, Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், ''caṅka ilakkiyam''), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil language, Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், ''Cā ...

denotes the subject matters that deal with the intangibles of life such as human emotions, love, separation, lovers' quarrels, etc. The poems of ''Aintinai Eḻupatu'' are categorised into fourteen poems for each of the five ''thinai'', or

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to each landscape. The five landscapes of Sangam poetry are ''mullai'' – forest, ''kurinji'' – mountains, ''marutham'' – farmland, ''paalai'' – arid land and ''neithal'' – seashore.

References

* Mudaliyar, Singaravelu A., Apithana Cintamani, An encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature, (1931) - Reprinted by Asian Educational Services, New Delhi (1983) * http://tamilnation.org/literature/ * http://tamilnation.org/literature/pathinen/pm0027.pdf ''Kainnilai''and ''innilai'' eText at Project madurai Sangam literature Ancient Indian poems {{India-lit-stub