Mullaippattu

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

The Mullaippattu ( முல்லைப்பாட்டு Mullaippāṭṭu [ ˈmulːɛi̯ pːaːʈːɯ ] "The forest poem") is a work of the Old Tamil Sangam literature . It is a longer single poem in a mixed form of the genres of love and hero poetry ( agam and puram ). Within the Sangam literature it belongs to the group of the "ten chants" ( Pattuppattu ).

With 103 lines in Agaval -Versmaß is the mullaippāṭṭu the shortest of the "Ten Songs". It is attributed to the author Nappudanar . The text is written in a hybrid of the genres of love and hero poetry ( agam and puram ). The poem is about a woman who is waiting for the return of her husband, who had to leave her because of a campaign. This is a conventional theme of Old Tamil love poetry associated with the forest landscape ( mullai ), one of the " five landscapes " of the Agam genre. The title of the work is also derived from this. The first 23 lines of the poem are about the woman who, one evening at the onset of the rainy season, thinks longingly of her lover while the shepherds tend their cattle (all typical elements of the mullai type). Lines 24-79 deal with the army camp in which the man is preparing for the upcoming battle. This part corresponds to the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). The remaining lines 80-103 again describe how the woman waits longingly until she finally hears the sound of the returning man's chariot.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 39-40.
  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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