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The '''Five Great Epics''' ({{lang-ta|ஐம்பெரும்காப்பியங்கள்}} ''Aimperumkāppiyaṅkaḷ'') are five [[Tamil language|Tamil]] epics according to later Tamil literary tradition. They are ''[[Silappatikaram|Silappatikāram]]'', ''[[Manimekalai]]'', ''[[Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi]]'', ''[[Valayapathi]]'' and ''[[Kundalakesi]]''.{{sfn|Mukherjee|1999|p=277}}
Three of the five great epics of Tamil literature are attributed to [[Tamil Jain]]s, while two are attributed to [[Tamil Buddhism|Tamil Buddhists]]. ''[[Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi]]'', ''[[Silappatikaram|Cilappathikāram]]'', and ''[[Valayapathi]]'' were written by [[Tamil Jain]]s, while ''[[Manimekalai]]'' and
These five epics were written over a period of 5th to 10th century CE and act and provide historical information about the society, religions, culture and academic life of [[Tamil people]] over that period. ''Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi'' introduced long verses called ''virutha pa'' in Tamil literature,{{sfn|Datta|2004|p=720}} while ''Cilappatikāram'' used ''akaval'' meter (monologue), a style adopted from [[Tamil Sangams|Sangam]] literature.
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