Tolanggoly

Tolanggoly (: துளங்கொளி tuḷaṅkoḷi, from tuḷaṅku- 'to shine'), translated as (ir)radiance or more loosely stellarity, is a term used in Pytarene and broader Austral political theory and philosophy, referring to the synthesis of legitimacy, authority, and ideals on which a state and political society is founded, as well as the state or extent of this metaphorical 'light' being consistently expressed at all levels and sections throughout. The most prominent problem of Pytarene political theory has been to maximize the radiance of a society, ensuring that it in all aspects embody the morals and historical mandates it upholds, or at least claims to, and the general consensus of the intellectual tradition has been that the cultivation of individual persons, and the maximization of their potential (articulated differently by various thinkers) under a vinminine government, serves as the ideal path towards such an end. Within Pytarus, Pytarene civilization is implicitly the only tolanggoly, making any political thought in its framework inevitably touching upon the question of a 'world-empire', which in various forms heavily guides Pytarene attitudes and strategies in dealing with other cultures and polities; in the rest of the Austral world tolanggoly is usually abstracted to a single high ideal, that, although similarly rigid ideologically, may at least be radiated from all cultures, or at least one's own.

The term is also used to refer to historical periods or events of Pytarene expansion, translated as 'radiances' or 'irradiations', such as the Pedullamian or Thirupuyalian Radiances. The political extension of Pytarene rule and order in these events is not only viewed as the direct radiation of its ideals, but also (whether by nature or by contemporaneity) identified with the prosperity enjoyed under the orders established by their namesakes (thus for example the great growth in commerce, development of new art forms, and the conquest of Abria under the Pytarene Empire are all discussed together as parts of the same [Thirupuyalian] Radiance). For Pytarenes the distinction is considered trivial.