Pattinappalai

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

The Pattinappalai ( பட்டினப்பாலை Paṭṭiṉappālai [ ˈpaʈːɨnəpːaːlɛi̯ ] "The city and the desert") 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 ).

The Pattinappalai has a length of 301 lines and is written in Vanchi and Agaval measures . It is attributed to the author Uruttirangannanar , who is said to have also written the Perumbanatruppadai . The text is written in a hybrid of the genres of love and hero poetry ( agam and puram ). The poem is about a lover who is about to go to Kaverippattinam, the capital of the Chola King Karikala , but does not have the heart to leave his beloved behind. This is a conventional theme of ancient Tamil love poetry associated with the desert ( palai ), one of the " five landscapes " of the Agam genre. The love element only takes up 5 of 301 lines. The remaining 296 lines praise the ruler Karikala and his capital Kaveripattinam (the Chaberis of Claudius Ptolemy ). This corresponds to the type of praise poem of hero poetry ( puram ).

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 Pattinappalai .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 9-10 and 37-39.
  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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