The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Tirumur ̄ ai). This is Tirukko ̄vaiya ̄r, a learned poem attributed to the S ́aiva saint- poet Ma ̄n.ikkava ̄cakar. Though, by h ...

of the god Murukan ̄ , especially in his association with the seaside town of Tiruccentu ̄ r. Paula Richman has summarized the l ...

long poems whose verses are embedded in a story line, and in many instances the latter is borrowed from the itiha ̄sa-pura ̄n.ac ...

and frequently these are set to music. Often the occasion for these performances is an annual festival observed in a local deity ...

sung delivery styles, but unlike the pa ̄ratiya ̄r of the Draupadı ̄ cult, whose recita- tion is accompanied only by a harmonium ...

that, like Hinduism itself, it is easier to define this corpus (if indeed this amalgam of texts and performance practices can le ...

The word “text” has been used as an umbrella term for all of the verbal cre- ations discussed in this essay, but the uniformity ...

the “text” is a more fluid entity. Manuscripts of plays and bow song texts circu- late among performers, but these serve more as ...

References Blackburn, Stuart. 1988: Singing of Birth and Death: Text in Performance.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pre ...

CHAPTER 8 The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam Rich Freeman The development of written literatures in India’s regional langua ...

through time. Tamil was itself unique in being the earliest Dravidian language to emerge into literacy, and the only regional sp ...

Both of these thematic divisions of social life were emotionally explored through imaging moods and feelings in a semiotic codin ...

complexes of lush eroticism and graphic violence that motivated these carried forward into the Sanskritization of Tamil literatu ...

Co ̄l ̄ a imperium helped condition and maintain the internal fragmentation of medieval Kerala into a pastiche of feuding sub-ki ...

In modern times, Malayans are found only in far northern Kerala, where both copies of the Tirunil ̄ alma ̄lawere discovered. Mal ...

The poem tells us that birds of prey and crows gathered on the gibbets, mistak- ing this for the real thing. Then amidst a roar ...

In another passage, corpses severed of their heads, wander around as if looking for something they’ve lost (i.e., their heads!), ...

Kerala’s Brahmans. It is therefore their literary culture and life-style that were most closely reflected in this literature. Th ...

dustbin genre of Pa ̄t.t.u, lending the latter a patina that is at once more indige- nous and more piously devotional. This noti ...

There is a rich interplay of images here of warfare, blood sacrifice, and con- sumption, along with the confluence of fiery meta ...