TamilThagaval/pathinen_keezhkanakku-thinaimaalainootruiympadhu

---
license: mit
task_categories:
- question-answering
language:
- ta
tags:
- art
pretty_name: thinaimaalainootruiympadhu
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

## 📝 Dataset Description

Thinaimaalai Nootraimbathu (திணைமாலை நூற்றைம்பது) is one of the Pathinen Keezhkanakku classical Tamil texts.
Because this work beautifully arranges the ethical principles (ஒழுக்கங்கள்) of the five landscapes (ஐந்திணை) like a garland (மாலை), it is known as:

திணைமாலை – A garland of thinais

திணைமாலை நூற்றைம்பது – Because it contains 150 poems

The author of this text is:

ஏலாதியை இயற்றிய கணிமேதாவியார்.

This dataset contains each poem along with:

The ⁠Thinai classification

The land type (நிலம்)

The ethical theme (ஒழுக்கம்)

The poem and its explanation

Structured cleanly for NLP research, Tamil literature analysis, and LLM fine-tuning.

## 📂 Dataset Structure

Each record includes:

thinai – The landscape type

nilam – The land description

ozhukkam – Ethical principle / behaviour

poems – A list of poems under that thinai

number – Poem number

poem – Original Tamil poem

explanation – Classical Tamil commentary

## 🎯 Intended Use

This dataset is ideal for:

Tamil classical poetry research

Thinai-based text classification

Ethical theme modeling

Poem → explanation generation

Semantic embeddings for Tamil

LLM training on structured Tamil literature

Cultural and historical preservation

## 📊 Data Fields
thinai: string
nilam: string
ozhukkam: string
poems: list
number: int
poem: string
explanation: string

## 🛠 Dataset Creation

Poems and explanations collected from classical Tamil sources

Verified and cleaned manually

Unicode normalized for NLP compatibility

Ethical themes (ஒழுக்கம்) included for semantic modeling

JSON designed for high-quality dataset building

## 📜 License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
You are free to use, modify, and distribute with attribution.

## 🙏 Acknowledgements

Curated by the TamilThagaval community, dedicated to preserving and digitizing Tamil classical literature for the world.