Saturday, December 21, 2024

Sangam Poetry – (Translated by A.K. Ramanujan)

  1. Yesterday, some people of this town said about me, she is the woman of that man from the seashore where great waves break on the white sands. Mother heard it and asked...

Kalingathu Parani

  Translation by Chenthil Nathan   “He’ll come” you swing it open “He won’t” you swing it close You swing it all night till the hinges erode, Open that door. (Verse...

Sangam Poetry : Pura Nanuru (Translation by A.K.Ramanujan)

  1. A King's Last Words If a child of my clan should die, if it is born dead, a mere gob of flesh not yet human, they will put it...

Silappathikaram – Excerpts in English translation

  Translated by Chenthil Nathan   Clamour of farmers, clamour of sluice gates, Clamour of water breaking river banks, clamour of revellers Celebrating fresh floods – escorted...

Twelve Sangam Poems

  Translated by E. Annamalai and H. Schiffman   1. Whether town or forest whether lowland or hill, In whatever way people are good the earth is good. Long may it prosper. (Auvaiyar,...

Birds and Beasts : Codes / Symbols in the Scheme of Sangam Love...

  By Govindaswamy Rajagopal   Present-day man has become absolute mechanical and obsessed with material gratification. Up till the period of industrialization, evidently he lived ‘the natural...

Poetry in a Landscape -The World of Sangam Literature

The magical word Sangam conjures up the golden age of Tamil literature, that lost paradise of Dravidian culture. It calls to mind the myth of...

Aka Nanuru : Palai – 163

  Translated by Dr. A. Dakshinamurthy   (The heroine speaks in desperation to her friend who consoles her) The cool clouds gathered in the sky And poured heavily with...

Silappadhikaram : The Story of the Jewelled Anklets – Prof. A.L. Basham

  Introductory Note: Silappadhikaram, the story of Jewelled Anklets, is rooted in the ordinary lives of the early Tamils of the Pandyan Kingdom in the first...

Tirumurai The Sixth ( St. Appar’s Thaandaka Hymns)

  English Translation by Dr. T.N. Ramachandran   1. Has He placed on His crown of matted hair the moon against which billows of the great Ganga dash? Does He desire the musical...

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