Syrup Panatruppadai

Sangam literature
Ettuttogai ("eight anthologies")
Natrinai Kurundogai Aingurunuru Paditruppattu Paripadal Kalittogai Agananuru Purananuru
Pattuppattu ("ten chants")
Tirumurugatruppadai Porunaratruppadai Syrup Panatruppadai Perumbanatruppadai Mullaippattu Maduraikkanchi Nedunalvadai Kurinchippattu Pattinappalai Malaipadukadam

The Syrupanatruppadai ( சிறுபாணாற்றுப்படை Ciṟupāṇāṟṟuppaṭai [ ˈsirɯpaːɳaːtːrɯpːaɖɛi̯ ] "Direction for the bard with the little lute" or "Little 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 Sirupanatruppadai has a length of 269 lines and is Agaval written -Versmaß. It is attributed to the author Nattattanar . Of the two genres of sangam literature, love and hero poetry, the syrup anatruppadai 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 the Syrupanatruppadai is Prince Nalliyakkodan of the Oy tribe. In the work, the poet extensively praises the bravery and generosity of the ruler and describes the country over which he rules.

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Kailasapathy: Tamil Heroic Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp 45-46.
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.

Web links

• E-text on Project Madurai.