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Nakul Krishna, The Caravan Seekers after happiness should turn to Ramanujans Interior Landscape. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, from Partial Recall In their antiquity and in their contemporaneity, there is not much else in any Indian literature equal to these quiet and dramatic Tamil poems. In their values and stances, they represent a mature classical poetry: passion is balanced by courtesy, transparency by ironies and nuances of design, impersonality by vivid detail, leanness of line by richness of implication. These poems are not just the earliest evidence of the Tamil genius. The Tamils, in all their two thousand years of literary effort, wrote nothing better. A. K. Ramanujan, from the afterword. The king and queen learn of their sons death, order the arrest of Manimekalai, arrange a henchman to kill her. They are Silappatikram, Manimekalai, Cvaka Cintmai, Valayapathi and Kualakci. Cvaka Cintmai, Cilappatikram, and Valayapathi were written by Tamil Jains, while Manimekalai and Kualakci were authored by Buddhists.The first mention of the Aimperumkappiyam (lit. Five large epics) occurs in Mayilainathars commentary of Nannl. The titles are first mentioned in the late-18th-to-early-19th-century work Thiruthanikaiula. Earlier works like the 17th-century poem Tamil vidu thoothu mention the great epics as Panchkavyams. Among these, the last two, Valayapathi and Kualakci are not extant. Cvaka Cintmai introduced long verses called virutha pa in Tamil literature, 6 while Cilappatikram used akaval meter (monologue), a style adopted from Sangam literature. It is a poem of 5,730 lines in almost entirely akaval (aciriyam) meter and is a tragic love story of a wealthy couple, Kannaki and her husband Kovalan. It is set in Poompuhar a seaport city of the early Chola kingdom. Kannaki and Kovalan are a newly married couple, blissfully in love. Over time, Kovalan meets Madhavi a courtesan and falls for her, leaves Kannaki and moves in with Madhavi. Kannaki is heartbroken, but as the chaste woman, she waits despite her husbands unfaithfulness. During the festival for Indra, the rain god, there is a poem recital competition. Kovalan recites a poem about a woman who hurt her lover. Madhavi then recites a song about a man who betrayed his lover. Kovalan feels Madhavi is unfaithful to him, leaves her, returns to Kannaki. Kovalan is poor, they move to Madurai, and try to restart their life. Kovalan sells it to a merchant who grows suspicious of the stranger and falsely accuses of theft of the queen jeweled anklet which is also missing. The king orders his execution, hurrying the checks and processes of justice. Kannaki learns what has happened. She protests the injustice and then proves Kovalans innocence by breaking the remaining anklet of the pair in the court. Kannaki curses the king and the people of Madurai, tears off her left breast and throws it at the gathered public. The royal family of the Chera kingdom learns about her, resolves to build a temple with Kannaki as the featured goddess. They go to the Himalayas, bring a stone, carve her image, call her goddess Pattini, dedicate a temple, order daily prayers, and perform a royal sacrifice. It is a Buddhist anti-love sequel to the Silappadikaram, with some characters from it and their next generation. 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 mothers footsteps as a dancer and a Buddhist nun. The epic tells her story. Her physical beauty and artistic achievements seduces the Chola prince Udhayakumara. Tamil Love Poems Free Herself FromHe pursues her. She, a nun of Mahayana Buddhism persuasion, is committed to free herself from human ties. She rejects his advances, yet finds herself drawn to him. She hides, prays and seeks the help of her mother, her Buddhist teacher Aravana Adikal and angels. Later, she takes the form and dress of a married woman in the neighborhood, as the prince pursues her. The husband sees the prince tease her, and protects his wife Manimekalai-in-hiding by killing the prince.
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