The Cilappatikaram
Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
The Cilappatikāram
Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Epic poetry, Tamil
ISBN : 9780143031963
Book Description
Men And Women Of Maturai Of The Four Temples! I Curse This City. Its King Erred In Killing The Man I Loved One Of The World'S Masterpieces, The Cilappatikaram (5Th Century Ce) By Ilanko Atikal Is India'S Finest Epic In A Language Other Than Sanskrit. It Spells Out In Unforgettable Verse The Problems That Humanity Has Been Wrestling With For A Long Time: Love, War, Evil, Fate And Death. The Tale Of An Anklet Is The Love Story Of Kovalan And Kannaki. Originating In Tamil Mythology, The Compelling Tale Of Kannaki Her Love, Her Feats And Triumphs, And Her Ultimate Transformation To Goddess Follows The Conventions Of Tamil Poetry And Is Told In Three Phases: The Erotic, The Heroic And The Mythic. This Epic Ranks With The Ramayana And The Mahabharata As One Of The Great Classics Of Indian Literature And Is Presented For The First Time In A Landmark English Verse Translation By The Eminent Poet R. Parthasarathy, Making It Accessible To A Wider Audience. Winner Of The 1995 Sahitya Akademi Prize For Translation (English), The 1994 Pen/ Book-Of-The-Month Club Translation Citation Of The Pen American Centre, And The 1996 Association For Asian Studies A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize For Translation.
The Tale of an Anklet
Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231078498
Book Description
Originating in Tamil mythology, Cilappatikaram is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life undergoes the same fate as the anklet that is stolen and used as a weapon.
Shilappadikaram
Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811200011
Book Description
The peerless young Kovalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Madhavi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikaram has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Adigal packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city and country life. And four Cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters and milkmaid s song). Thus the story gives us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects.
Imagining a Place for Buddhism
Author : Anne E. Monius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198032064
Book Description
While Tamil-speaking South India is celebrated for its preservation of Hindu tradition, other religious communities have played a significant role in shaping the region's religious history. Among these non-Hindu communities is that of the Buddhists, who are little-understood because of the scarcity of remnants of Tamil-speaking Buddhist culture. Here, focusing on the two Buddhist texts in Tamil that are complete (a sixth-century poetic narrative and an eleventh-century treatise on grammar and poetics), Monius sheds light on the role of literature and literary culture in the formation, articulation, and evolution of religious identity and community.
Indian Literature: An Introduction
Author : University of Delhi
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 8131776085
Book Description
Indian Literature: An Introduction is the first ever bilingual collection that includes some of the most significant writing in Indian Literature from its beginnings more than four thousand years ago to the present. It includes selections from the epics, drama, the novel, poems, a letter, an essay and short stories. The literary encounter is enriched with the juxtaposition of English and Hindi translation which set up a dialogue with the original language and between themselves.
Mythologies
Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mahābhārata
ISBN : 9780226340456
Book Description
India's Forests, Real and Imagined
Author : Alan Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 075563411X
Book Description
As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.
Indian Classical Literature
Author : Tanmoy Kundu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1040033075
Book Description
This book critically analyses classical Indian literature and explores the philosophical, literary, and cultural landscapes which have emerged in response to ancient Indian texts. It highlights the relevance of these texts and studies and how they have come to influence modern Indian literature in various ways. The authors look at classical literature both as a theoretical premise that primarily seeks to develop new knowledge and as a sphere of serious modern/postmodern critical attention. The volume features essays on key texts including Abhijnanasakuntalam, The Cilappatikaram: A Tale of An Anklet, Mrichchakatika, Panchatantra, and Mahabharata. A useful guide to ancient Indian texts, the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of mythology and classical literature, literary and critical theory, Indian literature, Sanskrit studies, and South Asian studies.
The Lost Land of Lemuria
Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2004-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520240324
Book Description
This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea.
