Indian Literature Vignette: A Sensuous Scene in கலித்தொகை (Kaliththogai) (~ 1st century CE)

By Kollengode S Venkataraman Written October 2000 The large compendium of early Bhakti poetry in Tamil composed between 6th and 10th centuries by the four Saivite and the twelve Vaishnavite savants is well known to the initiated. But another large body of Tamil literature, generically called the Sangam Literature, predates even this. This corpus of [ ]