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Journal articles on the topic "Tamil Devotional poetry"

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Rubiés, Joan-Pau. "Tamil Voices in the Lutheran Mission of South India (1705-1714)." Journal of Early Modern History 19, no. 1 (December 19, 2015): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342439.

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The English edition of the Bibliotheca Malabarica, a manuscript catalogue of the Tamil works collected by the young Lutheran missionary Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg during his first two years in India (1706-8), attests to his prodigious effort to acquire, read, and summarize all the works of the “heathens” of South India that he could possibly get hold of. Most of this literature seems to have originated from local Śaiva mattams. Besides epics and puranas, the collection included many popular works on ethics, divination and astrology, devotional poetry, or folk narratives and ballads. Ziegenbalg seems to have acquired these through his Tamil teacher in Tranquebar—an elderly schoolmaster—and his son. In this respect, a focus on the social and cultural dynamics by which local knowledge was transmitted to Europeans is no less important than identifying the literary sources for their interpretation of Hinduism. A fascinating work, the Tamil correspondence conducted between 1712 and 1714 by the Lutheran missionaries with a number of learned Hindus reveals their desire to embark on a kind of inter-religious dialogue as a foundation for their Christian apologetics. The replies received from his “heathen” correspondents would inform much of Ziegenbalg’s interpretation of Śaivism as a form of natural monotheism. Translated into German and published in Halle, they also became part of the Pietist propaganda concerning the mission, exerting a much wider impact than Ziegenbalg’s unpublished monographs about Hindu doctrines and theology. But how authentic were these Tamil voices? Close analysis suggests that even if we conclude with the editors that the letters were what they claim to be, that is a direct translation of the work of many independent Tamil correspondents, the extent to which there was a religious “dialogue” based on reciprocity is open to question.
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M, Devi, and Balasubramaniyan S. "The work and life of Namakkal Kavignar Ramalingam through my story book." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, no. 4 (September 11, 2021): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2147.

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Various types of literature in Tamil have appeared and developed over time. Literature refines our lives. The literature that appeared in each period is able to reveal the living environment of the people of the respective period. Sangam Literature, Sangam Forgotten Literature, Devotional Literature, Folk Literature, Short Story, Novel, Renewal Poetry, Drama, Prose Literature. In this order his historical literature appears and develops. Her history is a collection of events that took place in a person's life. Traces of his historical literature can be found in the Sangam literature. When he and his friend Kopperuncholan, who was dying in the north, went to die in the north, many witnesses there asked why he had not lost his hair for so long. He has the best character wife in life, and people. He says that the Evelars who do not say what he thinks, and that the king is a good protector. And in our town live many learned, virtuous, well-meaning people with goals and principles. So I don't care. So he says I don't have gray hair. Through this, the news about Pichirantaiyar, his hometown, the witnesses in Avur, the people, the king and the evildoer are revealed. And he records through his songs that he lived a quiet contented life without any problems or interruptions. The above biographical notes are able to know the capital of his historical literature. Autobiography is written by a wide variety of writers, political leaders, scholars, and writers from all walks of life. One of the most significant of these biographies is considered to be that of the poet Ramalingam Pillai. The poet Ramalingam of this book is not only talking about the child's own life. Rather it speaks to the community as well. Because the poet Ramalingam Pillai has expressed in his works that he loved this community and what he experienced in his life. In particular, many of the events under the headings of Prayer, Thirukkural Pride, Gandhi, Nattukkummi, Feminism, Bharathidarshanam can be traced back to his works.
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Dubyanskiy, Alexander. "Transformation in the Lives of Tamil Śaiva bhaktas." Cracow Indological Studies 22, no. 1 (October 15, 2020): 135–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.22.2020.01.06.

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Transformation in the Lives of Tamil Śaiva bhaktas The article deals with the tradition of the medieval South-Indian branch of Hinduism, which can be defined here as the religion of Tamil Śaiva bhakti reflected in the poetic compositions (the corpus Tirumuṟai) composed by a group of saints called nāyaṉārs (‘leaders’). Hagiographic sources of this tradition, first of all Periya purāṇam, and the nāyaṉārs’ poetic creations reveal some constant motifs which form a certain pattern, a typology of their legendary life-stories. They include: the encounter of a bhakta with Śiva, a trial (a test of devotion, an initiation, a heroic deed), a participation in the myth, rejection of sexual (family) life, emotional experience and revelation of a poetical gift.
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K.BALAMURUGAN. "PATTUPPĀṬṬIL AḶAPEṬAI VAṬIVAṄKAḶ [ALAPEDAI FORMAT IN PATTUPADDU POEM]." Muallim Journal of Social Science and Humanities, July 2, 2021, 134–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33306/mjssh/145.

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The Sangam literature provides very valuable information on the social, economic and political life of the Tamil society. Sanga kaalam (Sangam age) is considered to be the Golden Age of Tamil Literature. The study aims to collect and quantify the scales found in the decimal texts and to classify their types such as verbal, melody, and verbal scales, to distinguish the scales from the following places first, middle, and last, and to look at the measurements at the high level and to identify and measure the measurements in the decimal. The Ten Idylls, known as Pattuppāṭṭu or Ten Lays, is an anthology of ten longer poems in the Sangam literature – the earliest known Tamil literature. They range between about 100 and 800 lines, and the collection includes the celebrated Nakkīrar's Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai (lit. "Guide to Lord Murukan"). The collection was termed as "Ten Idylls" during the colonial era, though this title is considered "very incorrect" by Kamil Zvelebil – a scholar of Tamil literature and history. He suggests "Ten Lays" as the more apt title. Five of these ten ancient poems are lyrical, narrative bardic guides (arruppatai) by which poets directed other bards to the patrons of arts such as kings and chieftains. The others are guides to religious devotion (Murugan) and to major towns, sometimes mixed with akam- or puram-genre poetry.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Tamil Devotional poetry"

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Harris, Anthony Gardner 1973. "Obtaining grace: locating the origins of a Tamil Śaiva precept." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3963.

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The central term in Tamil Śaiva religious vocabulary is aruḷ, designating Śiva's fundamental principle. It is widely regarded that Śiva's aruḷ spawned the cosmos, and to a practicing Śaiva, only Śiva's aruḷ can free a soul from the cycle of samsāra or rebirth. In a Śaiva theological context, the term debuts in medieval bhakti (devotional) hymns of the nāyan̲mār (poet-saints); over the course of four centuries (ca. 6th - 9th cents CE) the theological nuances of the term became increasingly intricate. In the last major devotional work produced, the Tiruvācakam (ca. 9th cent CE), Māṇikkavācakar expanded the semantic latitude of aruḷ, using it in ways that the previous Śaiva poets had not. Māṇikkavācakar created a space for arul to become the Śaiva identity mark par excellence. He used the term to indicate an array of theological aspects--Śiva himself, Śiva's grace, any action that Śiva undertakes, the path of knowledge that assists devotees in understanding the nature of the soul, and the mercy and compassion that Śiva has for his servants. While this list is not exhaustive, it points to the semantic breadth of arul as a Śaiva theological concept. This dissertation is an analysis of the semantic evolution of the concept arul through three genres of Tamil literature: classical (caṅkam) heroic and love poetry, and medieval Śaiva devotional poetry. I utilize a variety of texts for the project. From the eight anthologies of cankam poetry, I translate and analyze poems from the Pur̲anān̲ūru, Aiṅkur̲un̲ūru, Kur̲untokai, Akanān̲ūr̲u (ca. 1st century BCE to 4th century CE). From Śaiva bhakti literature, I focus on Māṇikkavācakar's Tiruvācakam. In reading from these texts, I trace the semantic continuity and interruption between the classical secular poetry and the medieval devotional poetry. I argue, among other things, that the cultural underpinnings of the concept remain intact as the term becomes incorporated in the technical vocabulary of Tamil Śaivism. The Śaiva authors were thus able to develop a new and unique style of religious literature that resonated with the cultural and literary past.
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Books on the topic "Tamil Devotional poetry"

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Pūṅkōtai. Pūṅkōtai iyar̲r̲iya Arttanārīcar kur̲avañci, en̲n̲um, Tirucceṅkōṭṭuk kur̲avañci. Cen̲n̲ai: Makāmakōpāttiyāya Ṭākṭār U. Vē. Cāminātaiyar Nūlnilaiyam, 2002.

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Lōccan̲, Po Cā. Tiruppukal̲icai. Tañcāvūr: Kalaiyakam, 1999.

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Devarasa, Ma Da. Ūttukkāṭu Veṅkaṭa Cuppaiyar aruḷiya kurukīrttanaikaḷ saptaratn̲am mar̲r̲um Āñcan̲eya pañcaratn̲am. Cen̲n̲ai: K. Rājammāḷ, 2000.

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Irācēcuvari, Ta. Catakat tiraṭṭu. Cen̲n̲ai: Ulakat Tamil̲ārāycci Nir̲uvan̲am, 2001.

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Vamadeva, Chandraleka. The concept of van̲n̲an̲pu "violent love" in Tamil Saivism, with special reference to the Periyapurāṇam. Uppsala: Uppsala University, Religious Studies, 1995.

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Thyagaraja, D. Benedict, and D. Benedict Thyagarajan. Christanjali. Chennai: Christian Literature Society, 2009.

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cent, Kāraikkālammai 6th, ed. Śiva's demon devotee: Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.

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Songs of experience: The poetics of Tamil devotion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

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Irāmaiyar. Māyūram en̲r̲u valaṅkukir̲a Tirumayilait tiripantāti. Cen̲n̲ai: Makāmakōpāttiyāya Ṭākṭar U. Vē. Cāminātaiyar Nūlnilaiyam, 1997.

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Tirumūlar. Tirumantiram: Tamila meṃ racita prācīna Śaiva grantha. 2nd ed. Nayī Dillī: Irāvadī Prakāśana, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Tamil Devotional poetry"

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Monius, Anne E. "Gesture and Emotion in Tamil Śaiva Devotional Poetry." In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350167803.ch-008.

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