Complex sentence: In the subsequent centuries, besides a popular pattu ("song ") literature, there flourished a literature of mainly erotic poetry composed in the manipravalam (translates"ruby coral") style, an admixture of Malayalam and Sanskrit.
Split into simpler sentences: In the subsequent centuries, besides a popular pattu ("song ") literature, the manipravalam poetry also flourished. Manipravalam (translates"ruby coral") style mainly consisted of erotic poetry in an admixture of Malayalam and Sanskrit.