INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The language used in the literature of Sangam period was Tamil. The Sangam literature is the historic evidence of indigenous literary developments in South India in parallel to Sanskrit, and the classical status of the Tamil language.

Detailed explanation-2: -sangam literature, sangam also spelled cankam, chankam, or shangam, the earliest writings in the Tamil language, thought to have been produced in three chankams, or literary academies, in Madurai, India, from the 1st to the 4th century ce.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sangam literature is the name given to the ancient Tamil literature. The Ancient Tamil Siddhar Agastyar is thought to have led the first Sangam in Madurai. This era is known as the Sangam Period. The three main Tamil kingdoms of this era were Cholas, the Cheras, and the Pandyas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sangam period extended from roughly 200 BCE to 200 CE (early Chola period before the interregnum), when the earliest extant works of Tamil literature were written (also known as Sangam literature).

Detailed explanation-5: -Tholkappiyam is the oldest Tamil literature. It was composed 2000 years ago. As per Tamil language experts Tholkappiyam dates to before 350BC.