The eight anthologies and the ten idylls of the Sangam age, Tolkappiyam, Thirukkural, the eighteen minor works and the great epics — with the Tamil text, English translations that name their translator, and the apparatus to read them.
Every text is listed, whether or not it is transcribed here yet — so the shape of the literature is visible even where the transcription is still in progress.
Four ways into the material, depending on what you came for.
All 1,330 couplets across 133 chapters, with G. U. Pope's verse translation, the Drew–Lazarus prose, and three Tamil commentaries side by side.
Read the Kural →Search every Sangam verse by text, by landscape, or by any word in the Tamil or the English. Built for looking things up, not for browsing idly.
Search the verses →Kurinji, mullai, marutham, neithal and palai — the thinai scheme set out in Tolkappiyam, and the key to reading any akam poem.
Explore the thinai →The flora, fauna, foods, occupations and arts named in the poems, each linked to every verse that mentions it, with the word highlighted in place.
Open the graph →Tamil poets mapped the states of love onto five landscapes. The landscape is not a setting — it is the argument.