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Literary Scholarship On India's Epic Traditions Has Long Focused On The Sanskrit Classics - The Mahabharata And The Ramayana - Thereby Excluding Works In Tamil. Now, The Esteemed Poet R. Parthasarathy Offers A Memorable New Translation Of The Renowned Tamil Poem The Cilappatikaram, One Of The World's Literary Masterpieces And India's Finest Epic In A Language Other Than Sanskrit.--book Jacket. Traditionally Believed To Have Been Composed In The 5th Century C.e. By Ilanko Atikal, A Tamil Prince, The Cilappatikaram - Which Means The Epic Of An Anklet - Is The Compelling Love Story Of Kannaki And Kovalan. The Anklet Is The Emblem Of The Goddess Pattini, And The Poem Depicts The Transformation Of Kannaki Into The Goddess. Parthasarathy's Introduction Examines The Poem In A Comparative Perspective With Reference To The Sanskrit And Greek Epics, And Proposes That Ilanko Rewrites The Epic Tradition By Subverting Its Essentially Androcentric Bias.^ The Postscript Discusses The Poetics Of The Tamil Epic In The Light Of The Two Great Categories Of Tamil Discourse: Okom, Inside, And Puram, Outside, Which Represent Two Of The Three Distinct Phases Through Which The Narrative Moves - The Erotic

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Author

translated, and with an introduction and postscript by R. Parthasarathy

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231078481

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, History

Rating

3.37 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14