Cilappatikaram

Introduction to Cilappatikaram| Who Was Ilango Adigal? The Story of Kannaki and Kovalan Cilappatikaram (The Tale of an Anklet) is a Tamil epic, a remarkable example of one of the earliest pieces of sangam poetry (poetry that talks about love) passed down through oral traditions. Often considered somewhat feminist, written by a Jain monk Ilango … Read more

Cilappatikaram and the Tamil Epic Tradition Tamil, amongst the Indian languages, is the foremost non-Sanskrit, classical language that boasts of an uninterrupted continuity in its spoken and written, oral and literary usage and distinct tradition. A huge corpus of poetry with more than 2000 extant poems testifies to a period of literary composition and royal … Read more