LEADER 03541nam 2200649 450 001 9910464725803321 005 20210422235044.0 010 $a3-11-035276-1 010 $a3-11-038779-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110352764 035 $a(CKB)3360000000515217 035 $a(EBL)1585388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001402437 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11798713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402437 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11357410 035 $a(PQKB)10365848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1585388 035 $a(DE-B1597)329997 035 $a(OCoLC)903957332 035 $a(OCoLC)922639357 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110352764 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1585388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11013871 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL807727 035 $a(OCoLC)898769693 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000515217 100 $a20150209h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $ager 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManuscript, print and memory $erelics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu /$fEva Wilden 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (462 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Manuscript Cultures ;$vVolume 3 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-11-034089-5 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tList of Abbreviations --$tContents --$tI. Introduction --$tII. The Manuscripts --$tIII. Transmissional History --$tIII.1 The Invocation Stanzas (ka?avu? v??ttu) --$tIII.2 Traditional Colophons --$tIII.3 Mnemonic Stanzas --$tIII.4 The Ca?kam Legends --$tIII. 5 Reception in the Grammatical Tradition --$tIII.6 Summary: The Rise and Fall of a Canon --$tIV The Editing Process --$tV Conclusion: The Restitution of a Canon --$tLiterature --$tList of Acknowledgements for the Illustrations --$tIndex 330 $aThe ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Ca?am ("The Academy") is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to oral predecessors probably dating back to the beginning of the first millennium, it has had an extremely rich and variegated history. Collected into anthologies and endowed with literary theories and voluminous commentaries, it became the centre-piece of the Tamil literary canon, associated with the royal court of the Pandya dynasty in Madurai. Its decline began in the late middle ages, and by the late 17th century it had fallen into near oblivion, before being rediscovered at the beginning of the print era. The present study traces the complex historical process of its transmission over some 2000 years, using and documenting a wide range of sources, in particular surviving manuscripts, the early prints, the commentaries of the literary and grammatical traditions and a vast range of later literature that creates a web of inter-textual references and "ations. 410 0$aStudies in manuscript cultures ;$vVolume 3. 606 $aSangam literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTamil literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSangam literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTamil literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a894.8/1109 700 $aWilden$b Eva$0766242 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464725803321 996 $aManuscript, print and memory$91558647 997 $aUNINA