Jataka Tales
Manimekalai
Kovalan and Madhavi’s daughter turns toward Buddhist renunciation, compassion and philosophical inquiry. The narrative continues the world of Silappadikaram.
Work: Manimekalai · Project Madurai 141; Tamil text, 30 cantos
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Renunciation and complex philosophy; selected teen adaptations.
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- Author / compiler
- Sattanar (Chithalai Chathanar)
- Date
- Date debated; often placed around the 6th century CE
- Original language
- Classical Tamil
Kovalan and Madhavi’s daughter turns toward Buddhist renunciation, compassion and philosophical inquiry. The narrative continues the world of Silappadikaram.
A Buddhist Tamil epic, not a Jataka birth story. Its placement here follows the shelf’s wider Buddhist collection.