Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu  Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu (, "lit." "the song of the mountains"), also called the Kurinchipattu or Perumkurinchi, is an ancient Tamil poem in the Sangam literature genre. It is a story about premarital love. Authored by Kapilar, it is the eighth poem in the "Pattuppāṭṭu" anthology. The poem is generally dated to the classical period (2nd- to 3rd-century CE). The "Kurincippattu" poem has 261 lines in "akaval" meter. It has 1,440 words, of which at least 19 are Sanskrit loan words. The underlying story is about a hill-tribe chieftain who sees a girl and falls in love at first sight. She falls for him too. Her foster-sister senses what is going on, and she arranges them to meet to enjoy each other in "beautiful groves of the forest". Overwhelmed by the experience of first love, her behavior at home changes. Her parents see the strangeness and suspect something is going on. They do not guess there is a lover involved but presume possession by spirits. They invite exorcists to treat their daughter. Her foster-sister intervenes and tells them the entire story, along with how the young man saved her life twice recently, once from drowning and another from a charging elephant. The parents feel that the young man would make a good husband, so they consent to their marriage. They did not approve of their premarital illicit love, but the love poem describes how the boy kept seeing the girl every night, and how she worried about her lover's journey through the forest full of danger and wildlife as he came to meet her. The poem is well written but is unusual in parts. For example, right as the love story is developing, it digresses into reciting a catalog of 99 mountain flowers in lines 61 to 95, those found in the Kurinci region. To some scholars, this appears to be an insertion into the original love story. Other scholars state that this poem may have had multiple purposes and served as a model with embedded information for other bards as they composed poems for their audience. This is confirmed in other early Tamil poems where catalogs of information about flora, fauna, donors and other topics were embedded in the poem in a metric form.