The Country and the City in the Kāñcippurāṇam

Numerous pre-modern literary works in Tamil begin with a lengthy description of a country and a city. This convention is a stock element of texts belonging to the kāppiyam and purāṇam genres, which can be defined as long narrative poems and mythological narrations, respectively. Such descriptions a...

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Main Author: Jonas Buchholz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2023-12-01
Series:Cracow Indological Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/5488