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Silappadikaram
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Jainism and Buddhism have often been clubbed together as religious traditions with similar worldviews, especially in their rejection of Vedic rituals. In comparison to Vedic religion, heterodox religious traditions, among them Jainism and Buddhism, emerged from a more urban milieu in early North…
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The story of Nala and Damayanti is an integral part of the Indian narrative repertoire. It is a story of love, of desire and temptation, of separation and diguise, of faith and spiritual evolution, of struggle and transcendence of misfortune.
Nalopakyana, the basic story of Nala and Damayanti…
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Introducing the way the 'content, form, organisation, metre and music' of oral traditions are 'incorporated' or 'absorbed' into written literature, the paper traces this process in the Tamil epic Silappadikaram, and points out the epic's own influence on genres adopted by later Bhakti poets. An…
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Balasaraswati's Presidential Address at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Tamil lsai Sangam, Madras, December 21, 1975, translated from the Tamil by S. Guhan.
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Kanad Sinha: As we are talking about the Rāmakathā tradition, how do you perceive the Rāmakathā tradition in particular? For example, do you think that the Rāmakathā tradition is centred on one ur-text, the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, or do you think that it is an open tradition formed by several independent…
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