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Kurinjipattu

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📚 Index - Introduction

"List of 99 Flowers!"- Kapila's Botanical Text! 🌸

🔑 Important information
📖 Type of text Autobiography(Department of Records)
📚 Collection ten- The eighth thread
📏 Feet 261 feet
✍️ Poet Kapil
🌾 Dept Treasury Department
💕 Adjective filling(addition)
🌸 Special 99 flowers are represented!
💡 Remembrance formula
🧠 "Kurinji = 261 = Kapilar = 99 Flowers"
  • 261steps
  • Kapil- Poet
  • 99 flowers- Specialization in Botany

🎯 Formula:"Kurinji Kapilar 261 = 99 Boo!"

🌸 99 Flowers - Special
Number of flowers 99
Botanical significance Ancient Tamil plant knowledge
Study Important for botanists
⭐ Treasury Department
the land Mountain and hilly place
flower remember
Adjective filling(Chief-Chief Additional)

💕 Index story

A story to tell a friend nurse!

📖 Synopsis

🎯 Thalavi and Thaliva met on the mountain.

🎯 Both fell in love.

🎯 The friend addressed this to the nurse (nurse).

🎯 She described the natural beauty of the mountain.

🎯 She listed 99 flowers!

🌸 99 flowers - some examples
1. Kurinji 2. Kants 3. Lotus
4. Red water 5. Venkadambu 6. Jasmine
7. Mullai 8. Priest 9. Uterus

...and 90 flowers!

🌿 Botanical Importance
  • 🔬Botanical study- Ancient Tamil plant knowledge
  • 📚Herbal medicine- Many flowers are medicinal
  • 🌸Ecology— Vegetation of the mountain region
  • 📖Literary evidence- Tamil plant names

🌟 Kurunchipattu special songs

📜 Famous lines

"The flowers of Kurinji land are many"

"Ninety-nine Flowers Bloomed"

💡Meaning:99 types of flowers bloomed on the hill!

📜 Mountain Commentary

"On the top of the hill the lily blossomed"

"Eyes turned red"

"The millet field was green"

📜 Kapil's specialty

💡Kapil- One of the greatest poets of the Sangam period!

  • 📚 Index - 261 feet
  • 🌸 99 Flowers - Botanical knowledge
  • 🏔️ Kurinji Land Expert

🎯 TNPSC Important Questions

📝 Critical Questions (MCQ)

1. Who sang Kurnchipapat?

A) Nakkir   B) Kapila   C) Paranar   D) Auvaiyar

✅ Answer: B) Kapilar

2. How many flowers are mentioned in the index?

A) 50 B) 75 C) 99 D) 100

Answer: C) 99

3. Number of feet of index?

A) 188 B) 261 C) 301 D) 317

Answer: B) 261

4. What is the title of Library?

A) Existence   B) Impregnation   C) Separation   D) Dissolution

✅ Answer: B) Embryo

5. Which of the following verses mentions 99 flowers?

A) Mullaippatu B) Nedunalvadai C) Kurinchippatu D) Pattinapalai

✅ Answer: C) Coding

🧠 Remembrance formula
steps 261
Poet Kapil
Flowers 99
Dept Kurinji = filling

🎯Formula:"Kurinji Kapilar 261 = 99 Boo!"

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