cover image: Request for the appointment of a poet

Request for the appointment of a poet

This palm-leaf bundle contains a request made by the veLLaalar caste to appoint a tamil poet in their villages such as vicayanakara paTTiNam, toNTai maNTalam, cooLa maNTalam and kanjcipuram. Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); height 4cm, width 33cm; sideline perforation; few palm-leaves are broken in the corner. 1 handwritten palm-leaf document (14 palm-leaves). Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): piramaati/pangkunhi/10.
Content Type
Manuscript
Date published
19th century
Languages
Tamil
Originals Information
"Original copies of the material remain in Erode, Erode District".
Pages
34
Published in
India
Reference
EAP458/1/1/1
Rights
Access is for research purposes only
Scripts
Tamil