Published 2022-07-28
Keywords
- Nilam Puttu Malarnta Nal,
- Velpari,
- Nannan,
- Adiyaman
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Abstract
Nilam puttu malarnta naḷ novel has won Sahitya Academy Award 2019. The 312-page long book is based on Sangam literary storytellers. The creator has created very beautiful characters in the form of Panar lifestyles, where the Panars, who were in poverty, tried to change their poverty by looking for each king and the Panars were without a fixed abode. Although the Panars were skilled in art, they lived as poor people with no material possessions. Hospitality, the primary characteristic of ancient Tamils, exists among the inhabitants of every land. Such hospitality has been recorded very neatly by this novel. That is, it is said that the people would show hospitality to the Panars on their way to see the kings. The four types of social systems and the ways in which they of its development and the reasons for the differences in social systems are excellent explained in Nilam puttu malarnta nal. Also, three poets namely Paranar, Kabila and Auvaiyar and small land kings namely Velpari, Nannan and Adiyaman are featured in this book. Auvaiyar greeting Atiyaman, Paranar advising Nannan, and Kabila befriending Velpari were created on the Nilam puttu malarnta naḷ novel.
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