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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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Kannagi holds her jewelled anklet

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Injustice, execution and grief require mature contextual reading.

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About this work

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.

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