Eelattu Poothanthevanar

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Eelattu Poothanthevanar
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Eelattu Poothanthevanar was one of the earliest known classical Tamil poets. His poems were included in the Tamil sangam or Cankam poetry anthologies compiled in Tamilakam before 250 AD. ^[1] He hailed from the ancient international port of Manthai in Eelam (the native Tamil name for the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka), the ruins of which are in present day Mannar District, Sri Lanka.

A distinctly Sri Lankan Tamil literary tradition first developed in the 1940s with the works of the 'marumalarchi' or renaissance writers Mahakavi, A. Kandasamy, and Varadar. The poetry of Mahakavi, in particular, helped distinguish the literature of Sri Lankan Tamils from that of Tamils in southern India.

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↑ Sri Lanka - Literature Encarta article reads: "The earliest known Sri Lankan Tamil poet was Eelattu Poothanthevanar, whose poems were included in the Tamil cankam (sangam) poetry anthologies compiled in southern India before 250 AD.". Archived 2009-10-31.

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Name	Poothanthevanar, Eelattu
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