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Cilappatikāram also referred to as Silappathikaram or Silappatikaram, is the earliest Tamil epic. It is a poem of 5,730 lines in almost entirely akaval (aciriyam) meter and is a tragic love story of a wealthy couple, Kannaki and her husband Kovalan. [13] It is set in Poompuhar a seaport city of the early Chola kingdom.
The 345th verse of Tirukkuṛaḷ is quoted in the epic. [6] [10] [11] According to Tamil scholar S. Vaiyapuri Pillai, Valayapathi is one of the earliest works done in the Viruttham metre. The quality and beauty of the epic has been praised by Adiyarkkunallar who quotes from it and praises its quality of poetry in his commentary of ...
Other scholars, such as Kamil Zvelebil – a Tamil literature and history scholar, state that the legends in the epic itself are a weak foundation for dating the text. [37] A stronger foundation is the linguistics, events and other sociological details in the text when compared to those in other Tamil literature, new words and grammatical forms ...
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It consists of 320 verses divided into 5 chapters. It was written by a Jain author Vel of Vennaval. It was conposed in the 14th century. [3] The Jain influence can be seen through the prayers in this epic. [4] Its considered as a traditional Jain work, and involves the concepts of humanity being condemned to an endless cycle of birth. [5]
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic ...
The Tamil epic Civakacintamani is probably a compilation of many older, fantasy-filled unreal Tamil folk stories. The poet skillfully couples the martial adventures of the extraordinarily talented superman with graphic sexual descriptions of his affairs, [ 5 ] along with lyrical interludes of his virtues such as kindness, duty, tenderness and ...
Sulamani or Culamani is one of the five minor epic poems of Sangham literature. It was written by Jain scholar Tolamoli Thevar. [1] It is written in viruttam metre similar to Cintamani. [2] It doesn't have a major plot [3] and it is written in 12 cantos with 2131 quatrains. [4]