Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life undergoes the same fate as the anklet that is stolen and used as a weapon. The story of Kannaki follows the conventions of classical Tamil poetry and is told in three phases: the erotic, the mythic, and the heroic. This epic ranks with the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" as one of ...
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Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life undergoes the same fate as the anklet that is stolen and used as a weapon. The story of Kannaki follows the conventions of classical Tamil poetry and is told in three phases: the erotic, the mythic, and the heroic. This epic ranks with the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" as one of the great classics of Indian literature.
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Good in Good jacket. Jacket is sunned and lightly worn. Spine is sunned and shaken, but secure. Cover edges are worn and sunned. Fore edge is lightly foxed. Inserted inside front fly leaves is publisher's Review Copy slip. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. An Epic of South India. 8vo. xx, 426 pp. Bound in full gray cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and map. Glossary, bibliography and index. Very Good+, minor fading to extremities of binding, otherwise, crisp copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear to extremities.