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  2. Manimekalai - Wikipedia

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    The Manimekalai is an anti-love story that starts off with supernatural elements. [3] [14] The Silappadikaram builds on human emotional themes and includes some sections praising Jains, while the Manimekalai is Buddhist propaganda that "attacks and ridicules Jainism", according to Kamil Zvelebil. [25] Notable characters

  3. Five Great Epics - Wikipedia

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    It is a Buddhist "anti-love" sequel to the Cilappatikaram, with some characters from it and their next generation. [16] The epic consists of 4,861 lines in akaval meter, arranged in 30 cantos. Manimekalai is the daughter of Kovalan and Madhavi, who follows in her mother's footsteps as a dancer and a Buddhist nun. [17] The epic tells her story.

  4. Manimekalai (1959 film) - Wikipedia

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    Manimekalai is a 1959 Indian Tamil-language epic film directed by V. S. Raghavan and written by Elangovan, starring T. R. Mahalingam and P. Bhanumathi. It is based on the epic of the same name by Chithalai Chathanar .

  5. Madhavi (Silappatikaram) - Wikipedia

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    Manimekalai, the daughter of Madhavi and Kovalan, who is the main character of another epic called "Manimegalai", written by Seethalai Sattanar, born to them in this period of love in between them at Kaveripoompatinam.

  6. Ponniyin Selvan - Wikipedia

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    Manimekalai, the sister of Kandanmaran, is in an one-sided love with him. Nandhini : Pazhuvoor Queen (Ilaya Rani) and wife of Periya Pazhuvettaraiyar whose birth and origin was kept doubtful in the beginning, the main antagonist of the story.

  7. Kovalan - Wikipedia

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    At the time of his marriage, he was sixteen years old. They lived together happily in the city of Kaveripattinam, until Kovalan met the courtesan Madhavi and fell in love with her. In his infatuation, he completely forgot his wife and spent his time and parental wealth with Madhavi. [citation needed]

  8. Cilappatikaram - Wikipedia

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    The epic is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple, Kaṇṇaki and her husband Kōvalaṉ. [6] [7] The Cilappatikāram has more ancient roots in the Tamil bardic tradition, as Kannaki and other characters of the story are mentioned or alluded to in the Sangam literature such as in the Naṟṟiṇai and later texts such as the Kovalam Katai.

  9. Manimekhala - Wikipedia

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    In the Tamil epic poem, the Manimekalai, she puts the eponymous heroine to sleep and takes her to the island Maṇipallavam (Nainatheevu). In the mythic cycle of the god Devol, when the latter approaches Sri Lanka and his ship founders, it is Manimekhalai, on the instructions of the god Śakra , who conjures up a stone boat to save him.