Malaipadukadam

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

The Malaipadukadam ( மலைபடுகடாம் Malaipaṭukaṭām [ ˈmalɛi̯paɖɯkaɖaːm ] "the mountain echo") is a work of the 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 ).

The malaipaṭukaṭām has a length of 583 lines and is Agaval written -Versmaß. It is attributed to the author Perungundrur Perungausiganar . Of the two genres of sangam literature, love and hero poetry, the Malaipadukadam 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 Malaipadukadam is Prince Nannan , about whom little historical facts are known. The title of the work Malaipadukadam is obscure. It is derived from a particularly prominent phrase in the text itself (line 348) and literally means "the excretion that flows from the mountain". The phrase is part of a comparison that compares a mountain to an elephant and is likely to refer to the sound echoing from the mountains.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 46-47.
  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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