Nedunalvadai

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

The Nedunalvadai ( நெடுநல்வாடை Neṭunalvāṭai [ ˈneɖɯnalvaːɖɛi̯ ] "the long good north wind") is a work of the ancient 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 ).

The Nedunalvadai has a length of 188 lines and is written in Agaval meter. It is attributed to the author Nakkirar . 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. The focus gradually shifts from the country, where the shepherds suffer from rain and cold, to the city, and then across the streets of the city and through the palace gates to the queen's bedchamber, who is consumed by her absent husband. Then the scene changes to the king's army camp, which is described in detail. While the woman's longing waiting is a conventional theme of Old Tamil love poetry ( agam ), the description of the army camp can be assigned to the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). The hero of the poem is traditionally identified with the Pandya king Neduncheliyan , although his name is not mentioned in the text itself.

The dating of the Sangam literature is highly uncertain. However, based on linguistic and stylistic criteria, the Nedunalvadai is suggested to date from the 4th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 40-42.
  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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