Sangam Age War Traditions and the Novel Velpari

Abstract

War has been a part of the lives of the people of the Sangam age. They did not take war merely as a matter of speech, but they treated it in accordance with the rules. This article compares the war with the war traditions of the Sangam age, the war traditions mentioned by Tholkappiyar. And with the novel Velpari, written by S. Venkatesan. If a king wants to wage war against another country, he can wage war only according to the rules. First of all, through spies, they will know the condition of the enemy country and want to capture the wealth of the country, that is, cattle-lifting. Then they will wage war in order to rescue the cattle. The literature highlights the traditions of war, such as the king who won after the end of the war, wearing the flower (albizia lebbeck/woman's tongue). Therefore, although there are innumerable war traditions in the Sangam age, only espionage, cattle-lifting, declaration of war, and flowering have been examined in the article. They have also been examined in terms of comparative criticism and descriptive criticism.