<Tr> <Td> Second </Td> <Td> Kapatapuram </Td> <Td> Earlier - Agastya Later - Tolkāppiyar (a disciple of Agastaya) </Td> <Td> Pandiya </Td> <Td> Tolkāppiyam (author - Tolkāppiyar) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Third </Td> <Td> Madurai </Td> <Td> Nakkeerar </Td> <Td> Pandiya </Td> <Td> covers entire corpus of Sangam Literature </Td> </Tr> <P> The works of Sangam literature were lost and forgotten for several centuries before they were brought to light by several Tamil scholars, such as Arumuka Navalar, C.W. Thamotharampillai and U.V. Swaminatha Iyer . They painstakingly collected and catalogued numerous manuscripts in various stages of deterioration . Navalar and Pillai hailed from Jaffna . Navalar brought the first Sangam text into print; this was the Thirumurukaattuppadai of Pattupattu (one of The Ten Idylls), in 1851 . Pillai brought out the first of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuththokai) of the Sangam classics, the Kaliththokai, in 1887 . Swaminathaiyar published his first print of Paththupattu in 1889 . Together, these scholars printed and published Tholkappiyam, Nachinarkiniyar urai (1895), Tholkappiyam Senavariyar urai, (1868), Manimekalai (1898), Silappatikaram (1889), Pattuppāṭṭu (1889), and Purananuru (1894), all with scholarly commentaries . They published more than 100 works in all, including minor poems . JV Chellaiah of Jaffna College did the entire translation of the Pattuppāṭṭu in English in 1945 . </P>

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