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CLASSICAL TAMIL LOVE POETRY
Copyright
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON MY TRANSLATION
THE TEXT OF AINKURUNURU
THE ACTORS
PART I MARUTAM ORAMPOKIAR
1. The wish list
2. The reed
3. The crab
4. To the thozhi
5. The wife’s quarrels
6. What the thozhi said
7. What the thalaivi said
8. In the fresh floods
9. Lovers’ quarrels
10. The water buffalo
NOTES
PART II NEIDAL AMMUVANAR
11. To the foster mother
12. To the thozhi
13. To the thalaivan
14. To the bard
15. The tiger claw
16. The white crane
17. The light grey crow
18. Thondi
19. The water lily
20. The bangles
NOTES
PART III KURINJI KAPILAR
21. Mother, live long
22. Mother
23. Thozhi, live long
24. To the thalaivan
25. The exorcism
26. The hillman
27. The wild boar
28. The monkey
29. The parrot
30. The peacock
NOTES
PART IV PALAI ODALANDAYAR
31. Oh, don’t go
32. The journey
33. During the dry land walk
34. The thalaivi’s laments
35. The spring
36. Return of the thalaivan
37. You
38. Mother’s laments
39. During elopement
40. Return of the lovers
NOTES
PART V MULLAI PEYANAR
41. The foster mother’s report
42. The thalaivan returns before the monsoon
43. The miscellany
44. Rain renews forest
45. In the military camp
46. The thalaivi at the onset of the monsoon
47. The thozhi consoles
48. The bard as messenger
49. Drive the chariot faster
50. The thalaivan’s return after assignment
NOTES
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