| Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet) Contributor(s): Adigal, Prince Ilangô (Author), Daniélou, Alain (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811200019 ISBN-13: 9780811200011 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Adigal, Shilappadikaram. The primary epic of Tamil literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.58" W x 7.98" (0.53 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The peerless young Kôvalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Mâdhavi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikaram has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Adigal packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city and country life. And four Cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters' and milkmaid's song). Thus the story gives us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adigal, Prince Ilango: - Prince Ilangô Adigal was a Tamil poet of ancient India and is considered as important to India as Homer was to the Western world.Danielou, Alain: - Alain Daniélou was an Indian historian, intellectual, musicologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism. |