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VENBA Meaning
Venba (வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines.
Popular books written in venba style
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All 1330 couplets from Tirukkural, composed by Tiruvalluvar are examples of venba. Tirukkural comes under a sub-category of venba called Kural venba, wherein each Kural has only two lines.
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Nala venba1 is another classical work written in venba style.
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Niti venba2 is another venba style book that preaches values.
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