The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
My Sapphire-hued Lord, my Beloved!
Kulacēkara Āḻvār’s Perumāḷ Tirumoḻi
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 136
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2018
Status : Available
65,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855392264
ISSN : 0073-8352
Width : 17,5 cm
Height : 24,5 cm
Weight : 1.2 kg
Number of pages : 615
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org
Geography : India
Language : English, Tamil
Support : Papier
Description :
XI + 604 p.
Abstract
This book is a complete annotated translation of a 9th-century Tamil bhakti poetic work known as the Perumāḷ Tirumoḻi, by Kulacēkara Āḻvār, as well as of its medieval Śrīvaiṣṇava commentary in Sanskrit-Tamil Maṇipravāḷam by Periyavāccāṉ Piḷḷai (13th c.). The Perumāḷ Tirumoḻi is now part of the Tamil Śrīvaiṣṇava canon called the Nālāyira tivviya pirapantam (Nālāyira Divyaprabandham, or ‘The Four Thousand Divine Compositions’), and is composed of ten decades dedicated to different forms of Viṣṇu. This book also includes an introduction, which seeks to find out who Kulacēkara Āḻvār really was, given his mysterious – and often disputed – identity.
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