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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Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Cracow Indological Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/5488 |