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Sangam literature or Sangam text depicts the history of ancient Tamil culture. Which includes early Cholas, Pandyas and Cheras. It was written in a verse style. Basically its an anthology of poems composed by various male and female Tamil poets.

In the Sangam age, women and upper higher class men wore two garments, the lower garment, and the upper garment and called Kalingam. They used cotton, silk, and wool to make dresses and the leaf garment was also very popularly used during that period. The ornaments were worn by both men and women. People bartered fish oil, edible yams, honey, ghee, deer meat and wine with rice.

The ancient Tamil songs are classified into Akampattukal and Purampattukal. The theme of Purampattukal is mainly external affairs like war and trade. The collection of these ancient Tamil songs is known as Sangam literature. It is the most ancient among the available Tamil literature compiled in the period between BCE 300 and CE300.

The Cholas, the Cheras, and the Pandyas were the three prominent ancient Tamil kingdoms. But The Hoysalas were basically a Kannadiga empire, which ruled a large part of modern-day Karnataka and some parts of Andhra Pradesh between the 10th and the 14th centuries. They contributed much to the growth of Kannada language and literature.

The earliest known literature works in Tamil were collected and compiled by an academy of scholars known as the Sangam. It was the Saiva Saint Appar who used the word Sangam for the earliest known Tamil literature.

The Tamil heroic poems are called the Sangam literature because they were collected and classified by the Sangam, which was an academy of scholars.