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On the basis of literary sources, give an account of religious belief and rituals of Sangam age.
- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
Sangam literature — the grammatical treatise Tolkappiyam, the anthologies of akam and puram verse, and the later epics Silappadikaram and Manimekalai — does not describe religion as a codified system but reveals it obliquely, embedded in convention: which god presides over which landscape, how the dead are disposed of, what a hero's spirit is believed…
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- The Tinai Framework: Landscape as the Organizing Principle of Worship
- The Wider Pantheon and the Drift Toward Saivism-Vaishnavism
- Ancestor and Hero Worship
- Death, Burial and Ritual Pollution
- Animism and the World of Spirits
- The Brahmanical, Jain and Buddhist Overlay
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