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Thepulimaangani: Tamil Prosody on the Open Web
(Because nothing says “romantic Friday night” like debugging a Rust parser for 7th-century metre.)
Welcome to the glorious intersection of Sangam poetry and WebAssembly.
We took the ancient, brain-melting rules of Tamil prosody — those delightful நேர் / நிரை syllables, the picky little feet, the line patterns that have made scholars cry into their palm-leaf manuscripts for centuries — and shoved the whole thing into your browser using Rust compiled to வலை அசெம்பிளி.
திறந்த வலையத்து செய்யுள் அலகி
இரசுட்டு செய்இணைப்பு வேகமொழி - நீய்ய்நேர்
நிரைந்த அசைசீர் தளைஇயைய தீர்க்குறை
தாளடிவ ணங்கிதொடைப் பூசு
No install. No “please download this 2003-era .exe”. Just paste your poem and watch the machine do what your high-school Tamil teacher only threatened to do with a ruler.
Inspired by the legendary Avalokitam, but rebuilt for the modern age with cleaner extension points than a Tamil grammar textbook has exceptions.
Whether you’re a professional Tamil poet, a linguistics masochist, or just someone who wants to know why that one line in your WhatsApp verse feels… off, you’ve come to the right place.
தேபுளிமாங்கனி — because if the ancient poets had browsers, they would have used this instead of counting on their fingers.