If your browser does not support Tables please use this link to view this page. Ancient thamiz music thamiz music is one of the ancient music scheme available. But today very less people even among Tamiz speaking know about the Tamiz isai.
Tamiz music has a lot of similarities with carnatic music.
There is a view that carnatic music might have originated from Tamiz music. The references to Tamiz music are there in ancient Tamiz literature like SilappadhikAram. The following list gives the Tamiz music terms and the equivalents in Carnatic music. In thEvAram the following paNs are used. There are 21 paNs used in thEvAram.