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TamilThagaval/Akananuru

Akananuru (அகநானூறு) Summary Akananuru (அகநானூறு) is one of the classical Tamil Sangam literature anthologies consisting of 400 poems. It belongs to the Ettuthokai (Eight Anthologies) corpus and focuses on the inner (அகம்) themes of life such as love, emotions, and human experiences. This dataset provides each poem along with metadata such as title, note (explanation/context), and poet information. It is useful for NLP research, classical text analysis, poetry… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/TamilThagaval/Akananuru.

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Akananuru (அகநானூறு)

Summary

Akananuru (அகநானூறு) is one of the classical Tamil Sangam literature anthologies consisting of 400 poems. It belongs to the Ettuthokai (Eight Anthologies) corpus and focuses on the inner (அகம்) themes of life such as love, emotions, and human experiences. This dataset provides each poem along with metadata such as title, note (explanation/context), and poet information. It is useful for NLP research, classical text analysis, poetry generation, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

Supported Tasks and Benchmarks

Text Classification: Categorize poems by theme (பாலை, குறிஞ்சி, முல்லை, நெய்தல், மருதம்).

Text Generation: Train models to generate Tamil classical-style poetry.

Translation: Build parallel corpora for Tamil-English translation tasks.

Information Retrieval: Extract poet-specific works or poems by contextual notes.

Linguistic Analysis: Study Sangam-era grammar, vocabulary, and meter.

Languages

Primary Language: Tamil (ta)

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

Each entry in the dataset contains the following fields:

id: Unique identifier for the poem (integer)

title: Title of the poem (string)

poem: Full Tamil poem text (string)

note: Commentary or context note about the poem (string)

poet: Name of the poet (string, may be empty if unknown)

Example { "id": 1, "title": "அகநானூறு - 1. பாலை", "poem": "'வண்டு படத் ததைந்த கண்ணி, ஒண் கழல்,\nஉருவக் குதிரை மழவர் ஓட்டிய\nமுருகன் நற் போர் நெடு வேள் ஆவி,...", "note": "பிரிவிடை ஆற்றாளாய தலைமகள் தோழிக்குச் சொல்லியது", "poet": "மாமூலனார்" }

Source Data

Original Source

The poems were sourced from TamilSurangam and other public Tamil literary repositories that host Sangam texts.

License

The dataset is distributed under the MIT License.

Dataset Creation

Motivation

The dataset was created to make Sangam literature accessible for computational linguistics, NLP research, and digital preservation of Tamil classics.

Who can use it?

Researchers: For Tamil NLP and historical text studies.

Educators & Students: For learning Tamil Sangam poetry.

Developers: To build cultural and literary AI applications.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite it as:

@dataset{TamilThagaval/Akananuru, title = {Akananuru (அகநானூறு) Dataset}, author = {TamilThagaval Community}, year = {2025}, publisher = {Hugging Face}, license = {MIT} }

How to Load

You can load the dataset directly from Hugging Face:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("TamilThagaval/Akananuru")

print(dataset["train"][0])