The landscape convention of Sangam Tamil poetry, in which five ecological zones, the mountain, forest, farmland, seashore and wasteland, each carry a fixed emotional register, so that naming a place also names a state of feeling.

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  Under akam sits the tinai system, in which five landscapes, the mountain and the forest and the farmland and the seashore and the wasteland, each carry a fixed emotional register, so that naming a place is alre…

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