Porunaratruppadai

Sangam literature
Ettuttogai ("eight anthologies")
Natrinai Kurundogai Aingurunuru Paditruppattu Paripadal Kalittogai Agananuru Purananuru
Pattuppattu ("ten chants")
Tirumurugatruppadai Porunaratruppadai Syrup Panatruppadai Perumbanatruppadai Mullaippattu Maduraikkanchi Nedunalvadai Kurinchippattu Pattinappalai Malaipadukadam

The Porunaratruppadai ( பொருநராற்றுப்படை Porunarāṟṟuppaṭai [ ˈpoɾɯn̪əɾaːtːrɯpːaɖɛi̯ ] "Direction for the War Bard ") is a work of the ancient Tamil Sangam literature . It is a longer single poem from the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). Within the Sangam literature it belongs to the group of the "ten chants" ( Pattuppattu ).

The Porunaratruppadai has a length of 248 lines and is written in Agaval and Vanchi . It is attributed to the author Mudattamakkanniyar . Of the two genres of sangam literature, love and hero poetry, the Porunaratruppadai belongs to the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). It represents the sub-genre of the “signposting poem” ( atruppadai ), in which a bard shows another bard the way to a patron and praises him. The patron sung in the Porunaratruppadai is the Chola King Karikala . In the work the poet describes in detail the generosity that the king showed towards bards and musicians, the wealth and fertility of his country and his military successes.

The dating of the Sangam literature is highly uncertain. On the basis of linguistic and stylistic criteria, however, a period of origin in the 4th century is suggested for the Porunaratruppadai .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp 36-37.
2. ^ Eva Wilden: Manuscript, Print and Memory. Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu, Berlin, Munich, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014, p. 8.

literature

Text output

• Pattuppāṭṭu mūlamum Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar uraiyum. Edited by UV Swaminatha Iyer . Tirāviṭātnākara Accukkūṭam, 1889. [Numerous new editions.]

Translations

• JV Chelliah: Pattupattu: Ten Tamil Idylls. Tamil Verses with English Translation . Reprinted by Thanjavur: Tamil University, 1985 [1946]. [Complete translation of the "ten chants" into English.]

Secondary literature

• K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry . London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
• Eva Wilden: Manuscript, Print and Memory. Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu . Berlin, Munich, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.
• Kamil V. Zvelebil: Tamil Literature. Leiden, Cologne: EJ Brill, 1975.

Web links

• E-text on Project Madurai.