Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics

278 Pages·1995·20.345 MB·English

by  Takanobu Takahashi

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TAMIL LOVE POETRY
AND POETICS
BRILL’S
INDOLOGICAL
LIBRARY
EDITED BY
JOHANNES BRONKHORST
IN CO-OPERATION WITH
RICHARD GOMBRICH +» OSKAR VON HINUBER
KATSUMI MIMAKI *« ARVIND SHARMA
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1995
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Takahashi, Takanobu.
Tamil love poetry and poetics / Takanobu Takahashi.
p. cm. — (Brill’s Indological library, ISSN 0925-2916 ; v.
9)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9004100423
1. Tamil poetry—To 1500—History and criticism. 2. Love poetry,
Tamil—History and criticism. 3. Tamil language—Grammar.
4. Poetics. I. Title. _II. Series.
PL4758.2.T324 1995
894.81111—dc20 9448200
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Takahashi, Takanobu:
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Leiden ; New York ; Koln : Brill, 1995
(Brill’s indological library ; Vol. 9)
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction ...........6 0... cc cece cece cece eee ce ne se eee eens
1.1. Classical Tamil literature (Cankam literature)
1.2. Conventionality of classical literature ......
1.2.1. Akam and puram
1.2.2. Dramatis personae of akam poetry ....

1.2.3. Aintinat or the five landscapes ..
1.3. Aim of this book...............00005
1.4. Methodology .
1.5. Synopsis of this book.
2. Erudite works
2.1. Tolkappiyam Porulatikaram..
2.1.1. Date of Tolkappiyam ...
2.1.2. Internal structure of Tolkappiyam Porulatikaram....
2.1.3. Author of Tolkappiyam ..........ce.ce. c.en0ce. ecen s
2.1.4. Name of Tolkappiyam ..
2.1.5. Commentaries......
2.2. Iraiyanar Akapporul
2.2.1. Story concerning the origin of IA..
2.2.2. Date of IA
2.2.3. Nakkirar’s Commentary
2.3. Akapporul Vilakkam
2.3.1. Contents and characteristics of AV..
3. Turai (colophon)

3.1. Definition ..
3.2. Origin of turai
3.3. Date of turai .
3.4. Conclusions
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4. Texts of akam poetry
4.1. Date of the texts
4.2. Peculiarity of Airikuruntru......
4.3. Chronological order of the anthologies .
4.4. Conclusion to chapters 2, 3, and 4...............eeeeeee
5. Brief analysis of mutal and karu
5.1. Mutal.
5.2. Karu...

5.3. Classification of the tinais
6. Analysis of uri; thematic investigations based on
the Akapporul Vilakkam’s model of the descriptions of
akam poetry ..
Explanatory notes on Chapter 6
Kalavu ‘pre-marital stage’ ..... 0.6... cece cece ee eee eee
6.1. Iyarkaip punarcci ‘the first meeting of lovers
by nature’... 2... ie eee cece ee eee teen teen es
6.2. Vanpurai ‘assurance given by the hero to the heroine
fearing separation’
6.3. Telivu ‘the heroine’s confidence in the her
6.4. Pirivuli makilcci ‘the hero feeling joy in love at the
parting from the heroine after the first meeting’ .......
6.5. Pirivulik kalarikal ‘the hero’s sorrow on separating
from the heroine after the first meeting’ . .
6.6. Itantalaippatu ‘the second meeting of lovers
on the next day at the same place
where they first met each other’
6.7. Pankar kuttam ‘the hero’s meeting with the heroine
at the same place where they first met
with the aid of his friend ..

6.8. Panki matiyutanpatu ‘the mai
of the love affair of the heroine’.............--.....005
6.9. Parikiyir ktittam ‘union through the aid of the maid’...
6.10. Pakarkuri ‘day-tryst’.. 0.0.cece0 c c0ence. eee. e ee.e ee ns
6.11. Pakarkuri itaiyitu ‘obstacles to the day-tryst’. :
6.12. Iravukkuri ‘night-tryst’..c.ec.e .ce.ce. c.en.c.e .ee e
6.13. Iravukkuri itaiyitu ‘obstacles to the night-tryst’........
6.14. Varaital vétkai ‘the heroine and the maid
talking to each other, desiring marriage’...............
6.15. Varaivu katatal ‘the maid urging the hero
to marry the heroine’......0.c c.ee. s.ce.nc.e .en0ce0 ee e