Perumbanatruppadai

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

The Perumbanatruppadai ( பெரும்பாணாற்றுப்படை Perumpāṇāṟṟuppaṭai [ ˈpeɾɯmbaːɳaːtːrɯpːaɖɛi̯ ] "direction for the bard with the big lute" or "big direction for the bard with the lute") is a work of old Tamil Sangam literature . It is a longer single poem from the genre of hero poetry ( puram ). Within the Sangam literature it belongs to the group of the "ten chants" ( Pattuppattu ).

The Perumbanatruppadai has a length of 500 lines and is Agaval written -Versmaß. It is attributed to the author Uruttirangannanar , who is also said to have written the Pattinappalai . Of the two genres of sangam literature, love and hero poetry, the Perumbanatruppadai 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 about in Perumbanatruppadai is Prince Tondaiman Ilandiraiyan , who ruled Kanchipuram . The poet describes the ruler's land in detail in the work. He follows the convention of the “ five landscapes ” ( tinai ) known from the old Tamil love poetry and describes the life of the robbers in the desert, the hunters in the mountains, the shepherds in the pastures, the farmers in the arable land and the fishermen on the coast.

The dating of the Sangam literature is highly uncertain. On the basis of linguistic and stylistic criteria, however, a period of origin in the 4th century is suggested for the Perumbanatruppadai .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 43-44.
  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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