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"name": "Visvanatha Sastriyar",
"bio": "Visvanatha Sastriyar (or Visvanathan) (1756–1845) was a Tamil poet and astronomer of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry. Sir Emerson Tennent called him \"the most celebrated astronomer in Ceylon\".\nVisvanatha Sastriyar was born in Araly in the Vaddukoddai region near Jaffna to Narayana Sastri in a Tamil Brahmin family in 1756.\nVisvanathan published a yearly almanac or panchangam till his death. This almanac was known for its accuracy. Visvanathan was praised for his work and was awarded the sole privilege of being considered \"Almanac Maker for His Majesty, George IV\". Sir Emerson Tennent, in his book \"Christianity in Ceylon\", wrote of Visvanatha Sastriyar thus:\nVisuvenathen was the most celebrated of the astronomers of Ceylon, in as much as he concentrated in his own person the accumulated science of his ancestors, who for nine generations had been cultivators of the same study",
"raw_bio": "Visvanatha Sastriyar (or Visvanathan) (1756–1845) was a Tamil poet and astronomer of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry. Sir Emerson Tennent called him \"the most celebrated astronomer in Ceylon\". Visvanatha Sastriyar was born in Araly in the Vaddukoddai region near Jaffna to Narayana Sastri in a Tamil Brahmin family in 1756. Visvanathan published a yearly almanac or panchangam till his death. This almanac was known for its accuracy. Visvanathan was praised for his work and was awarded the sole privilege of being considered \"Almanac Maker for His Majesty, George IV\". Sir Emerson Tennent, in his book \"Christianity in Ceylon\", wrote of Visvanatha Sastriyar thus: Visuvenathen was the most celebrated of the astronomers of Ceylon, in as much as he concentrated in his own person the accumulated science of his ancestors, who for nine generations had been cultivators of the same study",
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"name": "Chithalai Chathanar",
"bio": "\nSatthanar or Chithalai Satthanar (Tamil: சாத்தனார் or சீத்தலைச் சாத்தனார், cītalai cāttanār) was the Tamil poet who composed the epic Manimekalai. A total of 11 verses of the Sangam literature have been attributed to Satthanar, including verse 10 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.\nPronounced Sa-tha-naar, the name is derived from (Tamil: சாத்து, sāttu) meaning Buddhist monk. Applying this principle to the name Maturai Kulavāṇikan Cāttan, the author of Manimekalai, we see that the two appellations Maturai and Kulavanikan were prefixed to his name in order to distinguish him from another poet of Maturai with the same name and from a third who lived elsewhere. Several examples could be cited of this system of nomenclature which prevailed during the early days.\nSatthanar hailed from a place known as Seerthandalai, later came to be known as Seethalai. He was a grain merchant at Madurai and hence came to be called \"Koolavanigan\". He was a contemporary of Cheran Senguttuvan and was believed to have practiced Buddhism. He has sung in praise of the Pandyan king Chittira Maadatthu Thunjiya Nanmaran in the Sangam work of Purananuru.",
"raw_bio": "Satthanar or Chithalai Satthanar (Tamil: சாத்தனார் or சீத்தலைச் சாத்தனார், cītalai cāttanār) was the Tamil poet who composed the epic Manimekalai. A total of 11 verses of the Sangam literature have been attributed to Satthanar, including verse 10 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. Pronounced Sa-tha-naar, the name is derived from (Tamil: சாத்து, sāttu) meaning Buddhist monk. Applying this principle to the name Maturai Kulavāṇikan Cāttan, the author of Manimekalai, we see that the two appellations Maturai and Kulavanikan were prefixed to his name in order to distinguish him from another poet of Maturai with the same name and from a third who lived elsewhere. Several examples could be cited of this system of nomenclature which prevailed during the early days. Satthanar hailed from a place known as Seerthandalai, later came to be known as Seethalai. He was a grain merchant at Madurai and hence came to be called \"Koolavanigan\". He was a contemporary of Cheran Senguttuvan and was believed to have practiced Buddhism. He has sung in praise of the Pandyan king Chittira Maadatthu Thunjiya Nanmaran in the Sangam work of Purananuru.",
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"name": "Sekkilhar",
"bio": "\nSēkkilān Mādēvadigal Rāmadēva (12th century CE), known popularly by his family name as Sekkilhar (also spelled Sekkizhar), was a saint and a contemporary of Kulottunga Chola II. He compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam (Great Story or Narrative) in 4253 verses, recounting the life stories of the sixty-three Shaiva Nayanars, the devotees of Shiva. Sekkilhar himself was later canonised and his work, the Periyapuranam became the twelfth and final book of the sacred Saiva canon.\nSekkilhar was born as Arulmozhithevan, meaning the one of the divine language. He was a native of Kundrathur village (a suburb of the present-day Chennai), a sub-division of Puliyur-kottam in Thondaimandalam. Sekkilhar was a child of precious genius and having noticed this, king Anapaya, that is Kulothunga Chola II appointed him as his Prime Minister on account of his talents. His life is celebrated by Umapati Sivacharya in his fourteenth century work (1313 CE) called Sekkilhar Nayanar Puranam. Sekkilhar had the title Uttama Chola Pallavan and his brother, the title Tondaiman Pallavaraiyan. Sekkilhar is also called Ganga-kula tilaka (the glory of the Ganga race) and Bagirathi-kula tilaka (the glory of the Bhagiratha race) by Umapati Sivacharya in his work, the Sekkilar Puranam. The Guru Puja festival for Sekkilhar is celebrated annually in the month of Vaigasi-Poosam (May-June).\nKulothunga Chola II, then a young king, was a devotee of Lord Siva at Chidambaram and continued the reconstruction of the center of Tamil Saivism that was begun by his ancestors. At the same time, he was very interested in the highly erotic Jain epic Jivaka Chintamani. Sekkilhar, upon noticing this, advised the king to instead turn his attention to the lives of the Saiva saints as described by Sundarar in his Tiruthondar Thogai.",
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"name": "Sempulapeyaneerar",
"bio": "\nSempulapeyaneerar (Tamil: செம்புலப் பெயனீரார், literally \"he of water that has rained on red fields\") was a poet of the Sangam period, to whom a sole verse of the Sangam literature has been attributed.\nSempulapeyaneerar is said to have hailed from a geographic region with an abundance of red clay. With the Tamil literary tradition's practice of identifying a poet by a phrase or word from his or her poem, Sempulapeyaneerar came to be known so owing to his usage of the imagery \"red earth and pouring rain\" to denote the union of loving couples in his Sangam verse.\nSempulapeyaneerar wrote a sole Sangam verse, verse 40 of the Kurunthogai, and also compiled the Kurunthogai anthology. It is arguably one of the most renowned and oft-quoted of the Sangam anthology. It speaks about two lovers uniting, with the man reassuring his ladylove of his love.",
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"name": "Madurai Tamilaasiriyar Sengunrur Kilar",
"bio": "\nSengunrūr Kilār, known in full as Madurai Tamilāsiriyar Sengunrūr Kilār (Tamil: மதுரைத் தமிழாசிரியர் செங்குன்றூர்க் கிழார்), was a poet of the Sangam period to whom verse 34 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.\nSengunrur Kilar was a poet belonging to the late Sangam period that corresponds between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE. Verse 28 of the Kongu Mandala Sathagam indicates that Sengunrur Kilar was born in the town of Songodai (modern-day Tiruchengode). He was a professor of the ancient Madurai College (Madurai Tamil Sangam). He was also the chief of the clan on the Sengundram hill.\nSengunrur Kilar has authored verse 34 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. He opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus:",
"raw_bio": "Sengunrūr Kilār, known in full as Madurai Tamilāsiriyar Sengunrūr Kilār (Tamil: மதுரைத் தமிழாசிரியர் செங்குன்றூர்க் கிழார்), was a poet of the Sangam period to whom verse 34 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. Sengunrur Kilar was a poet belonging to the late Sangam period that corresponds between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE. Verse 28 of the Kongu Mandala Sathagam indicates that Sengunrur Kilar was born in the town of Songodai (modern-day Tiruchengode). He was a professor of the ancient Madurai College (Madurai Tamil Sangam). He was also the chief of the clan on the Sengundram hill. Sengunrur Kilar has authored verse 34 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. He opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus:",
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"name": "Siva Prakasar",
"bio": "\nSiva Prakasar (also Ṣiva Prakāṣa or sometimes Ṣiva-prakāṣa Dēṣikar), was a Tamil ( துறைமங்கலம் சிவப்பிரகாசர், கற்பனைக்களஞ்சியம் ) poet and philosopher lived during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was called 'Thurai mangalam Sivaprakasar' , 'Karpanai Kalangiyam' , 'Sivanuputhi chelvar'. He had contributed more than Thirty four Thamizh books for the Thamizh Literature, the most well known of which is the Nanneri, a work dealing with moral instruction. He is also well known for translating early Kannada works into the Tamil language. and for creating his own poetry.\nSiva prakasar, the real poet who was blessed as 'Sivanuputhichelvar' by the grace of God.\nHe is acclaimed as 'Karpanai Kalangiyam' by renowned scholars of Tamil – speaking world.\nHe compiled \" Neerotta Yamaha Anthathi \" to defeat an arrogant Poet. Those Venpa verses will not make both lips to touch. \nHe also wrote \" Yesu matha niragaranam \" (The Refuting the Religion of Jesus) after defeating Christian heretics Roberto Nobili and Beschi in polemical debates. The latter work is lost to the posterity due to the perfidy of the missionaries who lost the verbal contest.\nSivaprakasar was born in a town called Kanchipuram in Thondaimandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox veershaiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the middle of the 17th Century. Sivaprakasar's father was a respected spiritual leader. His father Kumara Swamy Desikar was the archaka and Dikshithar for the People of Thondaimandalam. His father left his family and gone to Thiruvannamalai with his disciples. There he planned to become a Sage. But it failed. God made him to get married. Kumara Swamy Desikar got three sons and a daughter. Siva prakasar was the first child. And his siblings were Karunai prakasar, Velaiyar and Gnambikai ammal and Wrote Many Tamil Poem's",
"raw_bio": "Siva Prakasar (also Ṣiva Prakāṣa or sometimes Ṣiva-prakāṣa Dēṣikar), was a Tamil ( துறைமங்கலம் சிவப்பிரகாசர், கற்பனைக்களஞ்சியம் ) poet and philosopher lived during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was called 'Thurai mangalam Sivaprakasar' , 'Karpanai Kalangiyam' , 'Sivanuputhi chelvar'. He had contributed more than Thirty four Thamizh books for the Thamizh Literature, the most well known of which is the Nanneri, a work dealing with moral instruction. He is also well known for translating early Kannada works into the Tamil language. and for creating his own poetry. Siva prakasar, the real poet who was blessed as 'Sivanuputhichelvar' by the grace of God. He is acclaimed as 'Karpanai Kalangiyam' by renowned scholars of Tamil – speaking world. He compiled \" Neerotta Yamaha Anthathi \" to defeat an arrogant Poet. Those Venpa verses will not make both lips to touch. He also wrote \" Yesu matha niragaranam \" (The Refuting the Religion of Jesus) after defeating Christian heretics Roberto Nobili and Beschi in polemical debates. The latter work is lost to the posterity due to the perfidy of the missionaries who lost the verbal contest. Sivaprakasar was born in a town called Kanchipuram in Thondaimandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox veershaiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the middle of the 17th Century. Sivaprakasar's father was a respected spiritual leader. His father Kumara Swamy Desikar was the archaka and Dikshithar for the People of Thondaimandalam. His father left his family and gone to Thiruvannamalai with his disciples. There he planned to become a Sage. But it failed. God made him to get married. Kumara Swamy Desikar got three sons and a daughter. Siva prakasar was the first child. And his siblings were Karunai prakasar, Velaiyar and Gnambikai ammal and Wrote Many Tamil Poem's",
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"name": "Valampuri Somanathan",
"bio": "\nValampuri Somanathan (c. 1928 – 21 June 2010) was a Tamil scholar and poet. He worked as a screenwriter in the Tamil film industry. In addition to screenwriting, he produced and directed a few films in Tamil. He was elected as president of Film Producers Guild of South India in 1987.",
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"name": "M. L. Thangappa",
"bio": "M. L. Thangappa (March 8, 1934 – May 31, 2018) was a Tamil writer and translator. He wrote many poems, articles and translations.\nThangappa was born on March 8, 1934, in Kurumbalaperi which is in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied in St.John's college, Tirunelveli. He moved to Puducherry in 1959 to teach English and then taught in various schools until 1967. He pursued a postgraduate degree in Tamil literature and won the Sahitya Akademi Prize in 2012 for his translation of Tamil Sangam poetry.\nHis translations ranged from Tamil bhakti poetry, iconoclastic Siddhar poetry, and Kalingathu Parani, to the nineteenth century Vallalar Ramalinga Swamigal, and the twentieth century greats, Subramania Bharathi and Bharathidasan. He also finished a translation of the Tamil didactic text, Naladiyar.\nOver the course of his career, he wrote more than 50 books, as well as translating the poems of Bharathi, Aravindar and Bharathidasan into English. His translations from the Tamil classics have appeared in Penguin Books as Love Stands Alone: Sections from Tamil Sangam Poetry. He died on May 31, 2018, with his body being donated to the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research.",
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"bio": "\nThayumanavar or Tayumanavar (Tamil: தாயுமானவர் Tāyumānavar) (1705–1744) was a Tamil spiritual philosopher from Tamil Nadu, India. Thayumanavar articulated the Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. He wrote several Tamil hymns of which 1454 are available. His first four songs were sung 250 years ago at the Congress of Religions in Tiruchirappalli. His poems follow his own mystical experience, but they also outline the philosophy of Hinduism, and the Tirumandiram by Saint Tirumular in its highest form, one that is at once devotional and nondual, one that sees God as both immanent and transcendent.\nThayumanavar's key teaching is to discipline the mind, control desires and meditate peacefully. He went on to say that \"it is easy to control an elephant, catch hold of the tiger's tail, grab the snake and dance, dictate the angels, transmigrate into another body, walk on water or sit on the sea; but it is more difficult to control the mind and remain quiet\".\nThayumanavar was a respected scholar in Tamil. He was also a scholar in Sanskrit and was a minister to the King in Trichinopoly in South India. His name hails from the name of the deity of the Rockfort Temple in Tiruchirapalli. When he became god-minded he quit his job and began roaming, preaching Saiva Siddhanta philosophy and Shiva worship. His songs are full of the divine bliss which he enjoyed and transmitted in abundance. The songs on the theme of the Atman craving for the union with the Supreme, are famous for their authenticity, simplicity and easily remembered language. He is also known for his unceasing emphasis on the unity of all paths to God and of all religions, and, in particular, on the unity of the Shaiva siddhanta and Vedanta.",
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"name": "Thenikkudi Keeranar",
"bio": "\nThenikkudi Keeranār (Tamil: தேனிக்குடிக் கீரனார்) was a poet of the Sangam period to whom verse 49 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.\nThenikkudi Keeranar was a poet belonging to the late Sangam period that corresponds between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE. He hailed from the town named Thenikkudi. He is also known for a verse on the bee in the Sangam literature.\nThenikkudi Keeranar has authored verse 49 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. He opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus:",
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"name": "Thiruvalluvar",
"bio": "\nThiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்), commonly known as Valluvar, was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economical matters, and love. The text is considered an exceptional and widely cherished work of Tamil literature.\nAlmost no authentic information is available about Valluvar, states Kamil Zvelebil – a scholar of Tamil literature. His life and likely background are variously inferred from his literary works by different biographers. There are unauthentic hagiographic and legendary accounts of Valluvar's life, and all major Indian religions, as well as Christian missionaries of the 19th century, have tried to claim him as secretly inspired (crypto-) or originally belonging to their tradition. Little is known with certainty about his family background, religious affiliation, or birthplace. He is believed to have lived at least in the town of Mylapore (a neighbourhood of the present-day Chennai), and his floruit is dated variously from fourth century BCE to early fifth century CE, based on the traditional accounts and the linguistic analyses of his writings. Maraimalai Adigal gives 31 BCE as the birth year of Valluvar, while Kamil Zvelebil infers the Tirukkuṟaḷ and Valluvar are best dated to around 500 CE.\nValluvar has influenced a wide range of scholars down the ages since his time across the ethical, social, political, economical, religious, philosophical, and spiritual spheres. He has long been venerated as a great sage, and his literary works a classic of Tamil culture.",
"raw_bio": "Thiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்), commonly known as Valluvar, was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economical matters, and love. The text is considered an exceptional and widely cherished work of Tamil literature. Almost no authentic information is available about Valluvar, states Kamil Zvelebil – a scholar of Tamil literature. His life and likely background are variously inferred from his literary works by different biographers. There are unauthentic hagiographic and legendary accounts of Valluvar's life, and all major Indian religions, as well as Christian missionaries of the 19th century, have tried to claim him as secretly inspired (crypto-) or originally belonging to their tradition. Little is known with certainty about his family background, religious affiliation, or birthplace. He is believed to have lived at least in the town of Mylapore (a neighbourhood of the present-day Chennai), and his floruit is dated variously from fourth century BCE to early fifth century CE, based on the traditional accounts and the linguistic analyses of his writings. Maraimalai Adigal gives 31 BCE as the birth year of Valluvar, while Kamil Zvelebil infers the Tirukkuṟaḷ and Valluvar are best dated to around 500 CE. Valluvar has influenced a wide range of scholars down the ages since his time across the ethical, social, political, economical, religious, philosophical, and spiritual spheres. He has long been venerated as a great sage, and his literary works a classic of Tamil culture.",
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"name": "Thoditthalai Viluthandinar",
"bio": "\nThoditthalai Viluthandinar (Tamil: தொடித்தலை விழுத்தண்டினார்) was a poet of the Sangam period, to whom a sole verse of the Sangam literature has been attributed, in addition to verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.\nThoditthalai Viluthandinar was came to be called so owing to the phrase \"Thoditthalai Vilutthandu\" used in the verse that he composed in Purananuru. This was the only verse that describes the boisterous acts of young men.\nThoditthalai Viluthandinar has written a sole Sangam verse, namely, verse 243 of the Purananuru, apart from verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.",
"raw_bio": "Thoditthalai Viluthandinar (Tamil: தொடித்தலை விழுத்தண்டினார்) was a poet of the Sangam period, to whom a sole verse of the Sangam literature has been attributed, in addition to verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. Thoditthalai Viluthandinar was came to be called so owing to the phrase \"Thoditthalai Vilutthandu\" used in the verse that he composed in Purananuru. This was the only verse that describes the boisterous acts of young men. Thoditthalai Viluthandinar has written a sole Sangam verse, namely, verse 243 of the Purananuru, apart from verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.",
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