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  2. Manimekalai - Wikipedia

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    Manimekalai goes to a city garden, away from the festival center, with her friend Sutamati; [28] continued description of the Chola city, people and the festival, mentions a "Jain monk, naked and waving a fly-whisk to avoid hurting unseen fragile insect" as well as "Kalamukhas [a subtradition of Shaivism] wearing oleander flower garlands and ...

  3. 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.

  4. Naga people (Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    In the Tamil epic Manimekalai, the heroine is miraculously transported to a small island called Manipallavam where there was a seat or foot stool associated to the Buddha. The seat in Manipallavam is said to have been used by the Buddha when he preached and reconciled the two kings of Naga land, and that it was placed in Manipallavam by the ...

  5. Five Great Epics - Wikipedia

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    The husband sees the prince tease her, and protects "his wife" – Manimekalai-in-hiding – by killing the prince. The king and queen learn of their son's death, order the arrest of Manimekalai, arrange a henchman to kill her. Angels intervene and Manimekalai miraculously disappears as others approach her, again. The queen understands and repents.

  6. Nainativu - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Tamil epic Manimekalai and the Sri Lankan history book Mahavamsa both mention a dispute between two Naga kings in northern Sri Lanka. [21] Some scholars derives the origin of the Pallava dynasty of Tamilakam from an marriage alliance of the Cholas and the Naga from Jaffna Peninsula. [22] This incident is mentioned in the Tamil epic ...

  7. Chithalai Chathanar - Wikipedia

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    Pronounced Sa-tha-naar, the name is derived from (Tamil: சாத்து, sāttu) meaning Buddhist monk. [2] Applying this principle to the name Maturai Kulavāṇikan Cāttan, the author of Manimekalai, we see that the two appellations Maturai and Kulavanikan were prefixed to his name in order to distinguish him from another poet of Maturai with the same name and from a third who lived ...

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  9. Ilango Adigal - Wikipedia

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    The Cilappatikaram epic — credited to Ilango Adigal — inspired another Tamil poetic epic called Manimekalai (which acts as a sequel to the first work). It revolves around the daughter of Kovalan, the protagonist of Cilappatikaram, and Madhavi (the dancing girl who had an affair with Kovalan in Cilappatikaram), named "Manimekalai.