தேம்பாவணியில் உவகை மெய்ப்பாடு / Expression of Extreme Pleasure in Thembavani

Literature serves as a mirror of a certain period reflecting the culture, behavior, and character of the people of that particular age. Just as time possesses continuity, literature too embodies vitality and emotions enduring across many generations. The experiences depicted by the author whether joyful or sorrowful situations are transmitted to the reader with equal emotional intensity. This ability to evoke and preserve human emotions constituted the idiosyncratic equality of literature. In this framework, Tholkappiar defines inner feelings as the outward manifestations of emotional states. He classifies these inner feelings into eight categories such as laughter, weeping, weakness, confusion, fear, pride, innocence and joy. In addition, he asserts that each of these emotions emerges through a process rooted in four distinct stages. The contribution of the study favours in the examination and the correspondence between these classifications of inner feelings (Agam) and the ideas and events represented in the classical work Thembavani.