Purananuru, a study note

• Purananuru is a literature of a kind of anthology of poems in Tamil belongs earlier to 2^nd century A.D. It depicts the life style of the leading people of that time. There are 400 poems in this work including a prayer song of latter period.
• Among the 400 two poems (no. 267 and 268) are not available at present. Furthermore some poems after the serial number 266 are available in broken without lines, phrases, etc.
• There is no information about the compiler or the patron of the compiler. The compilation adopts a style, giving preference to poems on three Tamil monarchs, chieftains, leading persons and so on with some exemptions.  
• There are some grammatical notes at the end of each poem some of which are irrelevant according to scholars. Again each poem has a context note acceptable by all.
• First 266 poems have an old commentary which point earlier commentary to that work which is not available at all.

Thematter in Tamil