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The '''''Purananuru''''' ({{indic|lang=ta|indic=புறநானூறு|trans=Puṟanāṉūṟu}}, literally "four hundred [poems] in the genre puram"), sometimes called '''''Puram''''' or '''''Purappattu''''', is a classical [[Tamil literature|Tamil poetic]] work and traditionally the last of the [[Eight Anthologies]] (''Ettuthokai'') in the [[Sangam literature]].{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=54-55}} It is a collection of 400 heroic poems about kings, wars and public life, of which two are lost and a few have survived into the modern age in fragments. The collected poems were composed by 157 poets, of which 14 are anonymous and at least 10 were women.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=54-55}}{{sfn|George Hart|Hank Heifetz|2001|p=xv}} This anthology has been variously dated between 1st century BCE and 5th century CE, with [[Kamil Zvelebil]], a Tamil literature scholar, dating predominantly all of the poems of ''Purananuru'' sometime between 2nd and 5th century CE.{{sfn|George Hart|Hank Heifetz|2001|p=xvi}}{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=41–43 with Chart 4}} Nevertheless, few poems are dated to the period of 1st century BCE.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zvelebil|first=Kamil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=degUAAAAIAAJ&q=info:3mNeiVqlnhoJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PR9|title=The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India|date=1973|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-03591-1|language=en}}</ref>