The Tamil Poets Unknown to the Tamil World

Abstract

The foreword to the article titled 'Tamil Poets Unknown to the Tamil World' features a song composed to illustrate the development of the Tamil language. Based on that song, there is a news item in the article which will be set up an introduction to list of poets who were missed their honour by Tamil world. There are four Tamil poets of the same name by the name of Narayanaswamy Naidu, who lived in different cities and wrote different texts. There is a reference to Damodaram Pillai under the title 'Sirukulam Damodaram Pillai' and songs attested by their books Sathurch Siladai Venpa and Sirukulam Vinayakaranthadi. There is a news item titled 'Thiruvenkatachari Puluvar' which was silenced by most of the giraffes. Sodasavadanam Subbarayasettiar is a book written by Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and inspired by Purasa Attavadanam Sabapathy Mudaliar. The miraculous event that took place at the launch of the book “Mikurasu Malai” written by Saikualip Puluvar under the title Seikualip Puluvar has been compared to the miraculous event that took place when Meenakshiyammai Pillai Tamil written by Kumaragurupar was staged. There are brief messages in the title of the songs sung by the poets who expressed their devotion to God. There are songs sung in praise of the poets, as well as songs sung by the poets. Short notes on poets and names of books written by poets are given in brief descriptions of some of the poets that the Tamil world may have come to know. Explanations for specialty, yatsakanam, vasakappa, sattukkavi, avatanam, etc. are given where necessary. English numbers are used in this article as Tamil numbers cannot be used. The concluding remarks outline the comments that are said to be the final conclusion of the article.