Agattiyam, conjointly spelled as Akattiyam, in line with Tamil tradition, was the earliest book on Tamil descriptive linguistics. it's a non-extant text, historically believed to possess been compiled and educated within the 1st Sangam, by Agattiar (Agastya) to 12 students.Sage Agattiyar (Agastya), in medieval commentaries of Tamil Hindu students, is diversely attributable with either making the Tamil language or learning it from the god Shiva. In distinction, in line with medieval era Tamil Buddhist students, the sage learned Tamil from Avalokita. These legends area unit mentioned in Akitti Jataka and in Tamil Buddhist epics. there's no direct mention of the sage's name, or Agattiyam text, in Tolkappiyam or the poet poetry of the Sangam literature. Tolkappiyar (epithet), the author of Tolkappiyam, that is that the oldest surviving Tamil descriptive linguistics, is believed by numerous traditions to be one amongst the twelve disciples of Agattiyar. Tolkappiyar is believed to possess lived throughout the Second Sangam and to be the author of the Tolkappiyam that has survived.

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