The earliest literary attestations of maternal devotion appear in the Sangam corpus, especially the Akan̲̱a (interior) poems, where the mother is often invoked as a source of emotional stability for the hero. In Kurunthogai 108, the poet likens a lover’s yearning to a child’s longing for his mother’s embrace, establishing a symbolic parallel that later writers would replicate.
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