Modern literature meaning in tamil

There were a number of books written on Tamil grammar.
Yapperungalam and Yapperungalakkarigai were two works on prosody by the Jain ascetic Amirtasagara.
Buddamitra wrote Virasoliyam, another work on Tamil grammar, during the reign of Virarajendra Chola.

Tamil literature, body of writings in Tamil, a Dravidian language of India and Sri Lanka.
Apart from literature written in classical (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit, Tamil is the oldest literature in India.
Some inscriptions on stone have been dated to the 3rd century bc, but Tamil literature proper begins .

The novel as a genre of literature arrived in Tamil in the third quarter of the 19th century, more than a century after it became popular with English writers.
Its emergence was perhaps facilitated by the growing population of Tamils with a western education and exposure to popular English fiction.

The 17th century also saw for the first time literary works by Christian authors.
Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680–1746), better known as Veeramamunivar, compiled the first dictionary in Tamil.
His Chathurakarathi was the first to list the Tamil words in alphabetical order.
Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921) Tamil writer, poet, Indian freedom fighter.