# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kapilar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:06.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kapilar"
name: "Kapilar"
slug: "kapilar"
description: "Kapilar or Kabilar was the most prolific Tamil poet of the Sangam period. He contributed 206 poems, or a little less than 10% of the entire Sangam-era classical corpus by 473 ancient poets. Held in high regard by other poets of the Sangam era, as well as the post-Sangam era, he is variously dated to have lived between c. 50–125 CE, or 140–200 CE."
tagline: "Tamil poet of the Sangam period"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "100"
deathDate: "200"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.04
  momentum:             3.114630467571645
  historical:           4.420052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabilar"
    title: "Kabilar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapilar"
    title: "Kapilar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಕಬಿಲರ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapilar"
    title: "Kapilar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "கபிலர் (சங்ககாலம்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1570759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump