Shilappadikaram

By Alain Danielou

Shilappadikaram

By Alain Danielou

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Specifications

Genre

Classic

Print Length

201 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Rupa Publications Co.

Publication date

1 January 2016

ISBN

9789353170172

Description

committed in past lives must always bear fruit’. Thus the peerless young Kovalan will leave his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Madhavi, and though he returns to her, still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. It has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Ilango packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city or country life. And four cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters’ and milkmaids’ songs), thereby giving us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects


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