திணை — The unique poetic convention mapping landscapes to emotions in Sangam literature
In Sangam poetry a thinai is a landscape and everything native to it — its season and hour, its god, its people, birds, animals, flowers, food and music — bound to one situation in love. Tolkappiyam names the scheme: the poet who mentions a waterfall or a jasmine has already told you what the lovers are feeling. Each page below lays one landscape out in full.
Visualize the relationships between entities, verses, and landscapes using our interactive Knowledge Graph.