Multiple choice

Then earliest available work of the Sangam Tamils is

  1. Pattinappalai

  2. Tirumirugarruppadai

  3. Maduraikanchi

  4. Tolkppiyam
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Explanation

Tolkappiyam, authored by Tolkappiyar, is the earliest extant Tamil grammatical work and the foundational text of Tamil literature. Dating to roughly the 3rd-2nd century BCE, it predates the Sangam corpus anthologies and establishes grammatical rules that all later Sangam literature follows. The other options are individual works within the Sangam anthologies.

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