Maduraikkanchi

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Sangam literature
Ettuttogai
("eight anthologies")
Pattuppattu
("ten chants")

The Maduraikkanchi ( மதுரைக்கைஞ்சி Maturaikkāñci [ ˈmad̪ɯɾɛi̯kːaːɲʒi ] "Advice [for the King] of Madurai") is a work of Old Tamil Sangam literature . It is a longer single poem in the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). Within the Sangam literature it belongs to the group of the "ten chants" ( Pattuppattu ).

With 782 lines in Agaval and Vanchi , the Maduraikkanchi is the longest of the "ten chants". It is attributed to the author Mangudi Marudanar . Of the two genres of sangam literature, love and hero poetry, the Maduraikkanchi belongs to the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). It praises the Pandya king Neduncheliyan by describing his heroic deeds. Most of the work, however, is a vivid description of the Pandya capital Madurai .

The dating of the Sangam literature is highly uncertain. On the basis of linguistic and stylistic criteria, however, a period of origin in the 5th century is suggested for the Maduraikkanchi .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp 42-43.
  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.

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