Kandhar Shashti Kavacam

[murugadas]

Sanggam Literature is a body of literature that dates back about 2000 years. How long before that time, it started? This is one question that nobody is able to answer. The origins and past history are shrouded in mystery.

Tholkaappiyam is the earliest that we have. It is a mini-encyclopedia dealing with grammer, etc. It contains 1700 lines.

There are a class of poetry known as the 8 anthologies and 10 songs.
These belong to the Third Sanggam.
There were 3 Sanggams altogether.

More than 2000 poems are extant now in this body of literature.