Question

What were the Festivals and Entertainments in the sangam period?

Answer 1

Festivals:

1. People celebrated several festivals.
2. Some of them were the harvest festival (Pontal), the festival of spring, and Karthigai.
3. Indira vizha was celebrated in the capital.

Entertainments:

1. There were many amusements and games.
2. Dances, festivals, bullfights, cork fights, dice, hunting, wrestling, and playing in swings were some of them.
3. Children played with toy carts and with the sand houses made by them.