Ramayanam before Kamban - 2
  • Purananuru:

    ஊன்பொதி பசுங்குடையார், who praise Chola king, chozan seruppaazi-erindha-iLam-cEt-chenni (Verse 378)forl gifting gold coins and ornaments on a group of poverty strickenmale and female bards or minstrels. (Panan and Pani) The group, who had never seen an ornament before, started trying on them in the court itself. Not knowing which ornament goes where, they tried wearing the nose-ring on the finger, the ring for the finger on the ear, the necklace on the waist, and the waistband on the neck etc.

    refer the song then paradavar (378)
    http://www.tamilvu.org/library/l1280/html/l1280pat.htm






    The Poet compares this- once Ramas wife Sita was taken away by the demon
    , the monkeys which took her jewels from the ground were wearing it without knowing where to put those jewels . The nech ornament worn on the hand, hand on the head etc etc.

    Like those monkeys, these people are wearing the ornaments.
  • Nice. As you know there existed a tamil work called "Pazhaiya Ramayanam" which was lost.

    What would be even more interesting is Ramayana before valmeeki!

    It should have been a folk song sung by bards before valmiki gave it the epic status.

    G
  • There are many articles on Ramayana in tamil Litrature. I am compiling all the songs quoted by these people, adding whatever little i can. I will start adding to those with Thevaram & Prabandams from 7 onwards.

    This will give a clear picture of ramayana in tamil.

    At the end, i will give details of all those articles.

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