Paditruppattu

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

The Paditruppattu ( Tamil : பதிற்றுப்பத்து Patiṟṟuppattu [ ˈpad̪itːrɯpːat̪ːɯ ] "ten [times] ten [poems]") is a work of Old Tamil Sangam literature . It is an anthology of originally 100 poems from the genre of heroic poetry, 80 of which have survived. Within the Sangam literature it belongs to the group of the "eight anthologies" ( Ettuttogai ).

Formal aspects

Of the two genres of sangam literature (love and hero poetry), the Paditruppattu represents the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). It originally contained 100 poems arranged in ten decades (groups of ten poems). The first and last decade have not survived. Each decade is attributed to a single poet, namely Kummattur Kannanar , Palai Kautamanar , Kappiyatru Kappiyanar , Paranar , Kakkaipadiniyar Nachellaiyar , Kabilar , Arisil Kilar, and Perungundrur Kilar . The poems are, like most of the Sangam corpus in Agaval written -Versmaß and have a length from 5 to 57 lines. There is an anonymous old commentary on the Paditruppattu .

content

The kings of the Chera dynasty are celebrated in the Paditruppattu . Each decade serves to praise a single named ruler. On the basis of the information in the Paditruppattu, a genealogy of the early Chera rulers can be established, which makes the text an important historical source. On the basis of external information, the rulers are set to the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

Dating

The poems of the Paditruppattu are likely to be somewhat more recent than the poems of the other hero anthology Purananuru , which belongs to the oldest layer of Sangam literature. An indication of this is the fact that the poems of the Paditruppattu were not written as individual poems, but as decades. The absolute chronology of the texts is not certain, but it is suggested that the poems of the Paditruppattu date from the 4th century AD. A few centuries after their creation, the original orally transmitted individual poems were combined into an anthology.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kamil Zvelebil: Tamil Literature, Leiden, Cologne: EJ Brill, 1975, pp. 90-92.
  2. ^ KA Nilakantha Shastri: A History of South India. From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, 3rd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1966, pp. 116-124.
  3. ^ Eva Wilden: Manuscript, Print and Memory. Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu, Berlin, Munich, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Wilden 2014, pp. 413–414.

literature

Text output
  • Patiṟṟuppattu paḻaiyavuraiyum. Edited by UV Swaminatha Iyer . Ceṉṉappaṭṭaṉam: Kamarṣiyal Accukkūṭam, 1904. [2. Ed. 1920, numerous reprints.]
Translations
  • AK Ramanujan : Poems of Love and War. From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil . New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. [Translation of selected poems a. A. from the Paditruppattu 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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