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== History == | == History == | ||
Initially an oral tradition, 400 early Akam dating to the 1st century | Initially an oral tradition, 400 early Akam dating to the 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE were first compiled in the third century into an anthology known as [[Akanaṉūṟu|Akananuru]].<ref name="rajesh">{{Cite journal|last=Rajesh|first=V|date=2006|title=The making of the ancient Tamil literary canon|jstor=44147932|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=67|pages=154}}</ref> Each poem was in aciriyam meter consisting of 13 to 31 lines.<ref name="rajesh" /> Some of the poems were contemporary for the time, and historians have suggested the poems were written as a means of preserving the tradition in the face of rising literacy among the elite,<ref name="rajesh" /> and the simultaneous decline of power among tribal leaders.<ref name="Subbiah">{{cite journal|last1=Subbiah|first1=G.|title=King, Kingship and King-poets in early Tamilakam|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|date=1983|volume=44|pages=86–100|jstor=44139825}}</ref> | ||
As power shifted away from Jain and Buddhist chieftains to Hindu ones, poems began to be contextualized and appropriated, including Akam poetry, which increasingly included the names of Hindu gods and even began to cast Buddhist and Jain saints negatively, or included commentaries that recontextualized their presence.<ref name="rajesh" /> | As power shifted away from Jain and Buddhist chieftains to Hindu ones, poems began to be contextualized and appropriated, including Akam poetry, which increasingly included the names of Hindu gods and even began to cast Buddhist and Jain saints negatively, or included commentaries that recontextualized their presence.<ref name="rajesh" /> | ||