நாலடியார் (Naaladiyar) is one of the Pathinen Keezhkanakku (Eighteen Minor Works) in Sangam Literature, composed during the post-Sangam period (circa 100–500 CE).
It contains 400 venpa poems, each consisting of four lines (நாலடி = four lines), emphasizing:
Impermanence of life and wealth
Righteous living and virtue (அறம்)
Detachment and renunciation (துறவறம்)
Philosophical reflections on human existence
The poems are known for their brevity, depth… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/TamilThagaval/Pathinenkeezhkanakku-Naaladiyar.
