The Naladiyar is among the few original works that exist in Tamil.
It contains altogether 40 chapters of ten stanza each on moral subjects.
It is said that eight thousand poets visited the country of a certain prince who being a lover of muses treated them with kindness and received them into favor. This excited the envy of the existing bards who were already enjoying the royal patronage. They succeeded in their attempt to prejudice their master against the new comers. The later for their safety took flight without taking leave of their host decamped in the dead of the night. Previous to their departure each poet wrote a vemba on a scroll which he deposited under his pillow.
The king on learning of this from the envious poets ordered that the collection be thrown into the river. however 400 of them were found to surface for the space of four feet NALADI against the stream. The king moved by this occurrence directed that these scrolls should be preserved. They were accordingly formed into a work which got the name Naladiyar.
Chapter wise classification:
Unstable wealth
Unstable youth
Unstable bodt
The source of the power of virtue.
The impure body
Asceticism
Placidity
Patience
Conduct
Liberality.
It contains altogether 40 chapters of ten stanza each on moral subjects.
It is said that eight thousand poets visited the country of a certain prince who being a lover of muses treated them with kindness and received them into favor. This excited the envy of the existing bards who were already enjoying the royal patronage. They succeeded in their attempt to prejudice their master against the new comers. The later for their safety took flight without taking leave of their host decamped in the dead of the night. Previous to their departure each poet wrote a vemba on a scroll which he deposited under his pillow.
The king on learning of this from the envious poets ordered that the collection be thrown into the river. however 400 of them were found to surface for the space of four feet NALADI against the stream. The king moved by this occurrence directed that these scrolls should be preserved. They were accordingly formed into a work which got the name Naladiyar.
Chapter wise classification:
Unstable wealth
Unstable youth
Unstable bodt
The source of the power of virtue.
The impure body
Asceticism
Placidity
Patience
Conduct
Liberality.
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