- வெட்சிVetchiA புறத் திணை: cattle-raiding - a king's army seizing an enemy's cattle, often the opening act before a war. Paired with கரந்தை, the raid's response.
- கரந்தைKaranthaiA புறத் திணை: recovering cattle that an enemy had raided - the direct military response to வெட்சி, and just as much a mark of a king's valour.
- வஞ்சிVanjiA புறத் திணை: a king's army marching to invade an enemy's fort or land. Paired with நொச்சி, the fort's defence against exactly this.
- காஞ்சிKaanjiA புறத் திணை: reflecting on life's transience - the impermanence of wealth, youth, and power.
- நொச்சிNochiA புறத் திணை: defending a fort wall so it cannot be captured by an invading army - the direct response to வஞ்சி.
- உழிஞைUlinjaiA புறத் திணை: the siege itself - an army surrounding and attacking an enemy fort. Paired with தும்பை, the pitched battle that follows.
- தும்பைThumbaiA புறத் திணை: the pitched battle itself - two armies clashing directly on the battlefield, once a siege (உழிஞை) has broken open.
- வாகைVaagaiA புறத் திணை: victory - celebrating a king's triumph after battle.
- பாடாண்PaadaanA புறத் திணை: praise poetry - directly praising a king or patron's generosity, courage, and virtue.
- பொதுவியல்PothuviyalA புறத் திணை: a catch-all category for themes common across war/kingship poetry that don't fit neatly into வெட்சி through பாடாண் - the "general" புறத் திணை.
- கைக்கிளைKaikkilaiA புறத் திணை in this scheme: one-sided, unrequited love - grouped here rather than in அகம் since it falls outside the mutual love the 5 landscape திணை assume.
- பெருந்திணைPerunthinaiA புறத் திணை in this scheme: mismatched or unfitting love - a pairing seen as unsuitable, such as too great an age gap - grouped here alongside கைக்கிளை as love outside the 5 landscape திணை.
