Abstract
The so-called Sangam literature in Tamil arose as an offshoot of the oral literature of the megalithic society which flourished in the Deccan in the first millenium B.c. It was produced in the first 3 centuries A.D. by pulavans, literate poets who copied the oral productions of the Panaos and Kinaimakaus, low-caste bards who sang love songs and heroic songs. The ancient Tamils' conception of the sacred played a major r6le in their use of literary conventions. The poems of the Sattasai, which were written in Miaharastri shortly after the Sangam poems, also sprang from the oral literature of the megalithic culture. They use the same conventions as ancient Tamil, but in them the sacred has become the pleasurable. Subsequently, these conventions passed into classical Sanskrit, where their use was influenced by the North-Indian conception of the sacred.
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