Folk Tales of India
Silappadikaram (The Tale of an Anklet)
Kannagi seeks justice after Kovalan is wrongly executed. This Tamil epic connects Puhar, Madurai and Vanchi through loss, kingship and the power of her protest.
Work: Silappadikaram (The Tale of an Anklet) · Project Madurai: Puhar, Madurai and Vanchi in three separate files
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- Author / compiler
- Traditionally Ilango Adigal
- Date
- Date debated; often placed around the 5th–6th centuries CE
- Original language
- Classical Tamil
Kannagi seeks justice after Kovalan is wrongly executed. This Tamil epic connects Puhar, Madurai and Vanchi through loss, kingship and the power of her protest.
Usually treated as a post-Sangam epic. Ilango’s identity as a Jain royal monk is traditional attribution; dates and biography are debated.