The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India |
Contents
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Distinctive Features of Tamil Literature
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9 |
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Problems of Dating Relative and Absolute Chrono logy
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23 |
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The Cankam Legend The Texts
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45 |
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Analysing Classical Poetry
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65 |
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The Theory of Interior Landscape
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85 |
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Themes Motives Formulae III
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111 |
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Late Classical Poetry
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119 |
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Tolkappiyam
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131 |
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An Enigma
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218 |
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Arunakiri the Great Magician
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237 |
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The Prose of the Commentators
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247 |
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Origins of Modern Tamil Prose The Historical and the Theoretical Problem
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264 |
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Tamil Renaissance
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277 |
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The Prose of Today
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288 |
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The New Poetry
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313 |
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Conclusion
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336 |
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The Book of Lofty Wisdom
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155 |
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The Lay of the Anklet
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172 |
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Śaiva BhaktiTwo Approaches
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185 |
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The Imperial Poet
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207 |
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Select Annotated Bibliography
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339 |
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Index
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347 |
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A. K. Ramanujan According Agastya akam akaval ancient anklet anthology Arunakiri bardic poetry bards basic bhakti Brahmin Cankam Cent Chapter Cilappatikāram cittar classical Tamil commentary composed Dravidian earliest early Tamil epic fact genre grammar hero heroic History of Tamil hymns important inscriptions Iraiyaṇār Jaina Jainism Jesudasan Kailasapathy Kampan Kannada Kannaki king Kokilam Kōvalan Kuruntokai later lines linguistic literary Madras Malayalam marutam Maturai medieval metre modern Tamil mullai Murukan Nakkirar original Pallava Pāṇini patikams Patirruppattu poems poetic poets Porul praise probably prosody Puram Rāma Ramamirtham Rāmānuja Śaiva Sanskrit says scholars short stories Siddha Śiva social songs South India stanzas structure style T. P. Meenakshisundaran Tamil culture Tamil language Tamil literature Tamil poetry Tamil prose Tamil writing Tamil-Brahmi Tamilnad Telugu term texts theme tiņai Tirukkural Tolk Tolkāppiyam tradition Transl translation typical U. V. Swaminatha Aiyar Vaiyapuri Pillai woman words Zvelebil