Sathurgini Uthayakumar


2026

This paper introduces Thiruppugazh-KG, a semantically annotated dataset and knowledge graph derived from the Thiruppugazh corpus, a 14th-century collection of 1,335 Tamil devotional hymns composed by Arunagirinathar. The dataset includes annotations for entities, devotional themes, mythological events, philosophical concepts, imagery, and sacred locations mentioned in each hymn. Using these annotations, we construct a Neo4j-based knowledge graph that models relationships between hymns and their associated cultural and narrative elements. Graph analytics, including PageRank, are applied to identify prominent entities and sacred locations within the corpus. The resulting resource provides a structured representation of Tamil devotional literature and supports computational analysis of cultural texts in low-resource languages.