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.
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Māṟaṉakaporuḷum Tiruppatikkōvaiyum
A treatise on tamil poetics illustrated with a narrative poem
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 96
Editor: Gopal Iyer (T. V. )
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2005
Status : Available
22,00 €
ISBN : 2-85539-645-X
ISBN-13 : 978-2-85539-645-3
ISSN : 0073-8352
Width : 17 cm
Height : 23,5 cm
Weight : 0,8 kg
Number of pages : 452
Distributor : EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org, distributeur online : scholarswithoutborders@gmail.com, distributeur Chennai : jibh.rkc@gmail.com
Geography : India
Language : English
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Abstract
This book contains the first complete edition of a sixteenth-century Tamil treatise in 364 sūtras about Tamil love-poetry, the Māṟaṉakaporul of Tirukkurukaipperumāl Kavirāyar, and of an accompanying Vaisnava love poem of 527 stanzas, the Tiruppatikkōvai, penned by the same author. The poem illustrates the rules of the treatise, for it contrives to string together into a single narrative the various situations envisaged in the shorter love poems of classical Tamil literature of the Cankam age. It culminates in the amorous couple living as pious devotees of the devotees of Nammalvar, the poet-devotee of Visnu.
