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Purananuru
The Purananuru (Tamill ''Puṟanāṉūṟu'') is a Tamil poetic work in the ''Eṭṭuttokai'', one of the eighteen ''melkanakku noolgal''. It is a treatise on kingship: what a king should be, how he should act, how he should treat his subjects and how he should show his generosity.〔The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz p.17〕 Sangam Collection is classified into Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku and Patiṉeṇkīḻkaṇakku and each classification has eighteen collections, as an anthology of Tamil literature, belonging to the Sangam period. It is dated between first century BCE and fifth century CE.
The ''Purananuru'' is one of the eight books in the secular anthology of Sangam literature.〔Encyclopædia Britannica (India) 2000, p. 334.〕 The secular anthology is entirely unique in Indian literature, which nearly all religious texts during this era.〔 The ''Purananuru'' contains 400 poems of varying lengths in the ''akaval'' meter. More than 150 poets wrote the poems.〔Parmeshwaranand 2001, p. 1151〕 It is not known when or who collected these poems into these anthologies.
The ''Purananuru'' is a source of information on the political and social history of prehistoric Tamil Nadu. There is information on the various rulers who ruled the Tamil country before and during the Sangam era.
==Anthology==
Among the eight Sangam anthologies, ''Purananuru'' and ''Pathitrupathu'' are concerned with life outside family - kings, wars, greatness, generosity, ethics and philosophy.〔 While ''Pathitrupathu'' is limited to the glory of Chera kings in 108 verses, ''Purananuru'' contains an assortment of themes in three hundred ninety seven poems.〔 Of the original 400 poems, two have been lost, and some poems miss several lines.〔Hart 1999, p. xvi〕
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