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	Shilappadikaram in India
		One of the three surviving epics written at the end of the third ancient Tamil literary epoch, the Sangam period, Shilappadikaram was written by Ilango Adigal, the brother of King Cheran Chenguttuvan.
		Shilappadikaram is based on the lives of the early Tamils of the Pandian kingdom in the first century A D. Written in the form of a romantic trilogy interspersed with erotic verses, the work touches upon moral values, marriage, religion, art, music, dance, caste, myth, politics, military tactics, and a host of other things.
		The invaluable moral lessons Shilappadikaram teaches are that Divine Law intervenes in the form of death when a king grows negligent of his duty, a faithful wife ought to be universally respected, Fate works in totally mysterious ways and all actions are rewarded according to their nature.
	www.india9.com /i9show/Shilappadikaram-70135.htm (335 words)

	DNA - India - A symbol of revenge on Marina Beach - Daily News & Analysis
		A couple of years ago, the statue of the feminine symbol of purity and revenge (from the third Century Tamil classic Shilappadikaram), had mysteriously disappeared from its pedestal on Marina Beach.
		The police had removed it on former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's orders reportedly because her astrologer found it inauspicious to have the statue of a raging woman pointing her finger towards Fort St George.
		Protagonist of the third century epic Shilappadikaram by Ilango Adigal.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1029504 (555 words)

	Amazon.com: Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet): Books: Lakshmi Holmstrom,A. V. Ilango,Alain Danielou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Karma (Sanskrit for action) dominates the four moral lessons of Shilappadikaram: Divine Law takes the form of death when a king abandons duty, all must bow before a faithful wife, the ways of fate are mysterious, and all actions are rewarded.
		Writen at the end of the third ancient Tamil literary epoch (sangam), Shilappadikaram is only one of three surviving Great-Poems.
		Shilappadikaram is the primary epic of Tamil literature; it is an epic still alive orally as well.
	www.amazon.com /Shilappadikaram-Ankle-Bracelet-Lakshmi-Holmstrom/dp/0811200019 (1117 words)

	historybharat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The roots of Bharatanatyam can be found in the ancient sacred scriptures of India, specifically the "Natyashastra", or from the fifth century onwards sculptural evidence shows the typical stances found in present day Bharatanatyam.
		The Tamil literature classic "Shilappadikaram" describes a dancer's life in detail (500 B.C. -ad 500) Up until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of dancers were maintained in the temples by the various dynasties of South India including the chola, Pandya, Nayaka and Maratha rulers.
		Despite the fluctuations brought on by historical and political change, which brought it close to extinction, Bharatanatyam has survived against great odds, and in fact now flourishes.
	www.apsaradance.com /historypage.html (373 words)

	Letter to the President
		They learn the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, but little of the early Indian republics in the North, or of the meticulous electoral code of Chola kingdoms in the South, both of which ensured greater prosperity and much less corruption than does our present polity.
		They know Shakespeare better than Vyasa, Valmiki or Kalidasa, and Western classics in preference to the Shilappadikaram or even the Panchatantra.
		Nor are they made to appreciate how far world civilization is indebted to India in the spheres of science and technology, spirituality and arts, thought and culture.
	ifihhome.tripod.com /president.html (877 words)

	Vedic Roots of Early Tamil Culture (by Michel Danino)
		There is nothing very atheistic in all this, and in reality the values of the Kural are perfectly in tune with those found in several shastras or in the Gita.[45]
		Let us briefly turn to the famous Tamil epic Shilappadikaram (second to sixth century ad), which relates the beautiful and tragic story of Kannagi and Kovalan ; it opens with invocations to Chandra, Surya, and Indra, all of them Vedic Gods, and frequently praises Agni, Varuna, Shiva, Subrahmanya, Vishnu-Krishna, Uma, Kali, Yama and so forth.
		This pluralism can already be seen in the two epics Shilappadikaram and Manimekhalai, which amply testify that what we call today Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism coexisted harmoniously.
	www.tamilelibrary.org /teli/vedicroots.html (5005 words)

	Michel Danino - Vedic Roots of Early Tamil Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Let us briefly turn to the famous Tamil epic Shilappadikaram (second to sixth century ad), which relates the beautiful and tragic story of Kannagi and Kovalan ; it opens with invocations to Chandra, Surya, and Indra, all of them Vedic Gods, and frequently praises Agni, Varuna, Shiva, Subrahmanya, Vishnu-Krishna, Uma, Kali, Yama and so forth.
		There are mentions of the four Vedas and of “Vedic sacrifices being faultlessly performed.” “In more than one place,” writes V. Ramachandra Dikshitar, the first translator of the epic into English, “there are references to Vedic Brahmans, their fire rites, and their chanting of the Vedic hymns.
		One of his traditional names is “Tamil muni.” The Shilappadikaram refers to him as “the great sage of the Podiyil hill,” and a hill is still today named after him at the southernmost tip of the Western Ghats.
	micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com /tamilculture.html (5316 words)

	KeralaIyers.com - The portal for Kerala Iyers
		He would discourse for four hours upto 12 midnight and did not resort to restoratives like milk.
		He knew every word that Arunagiri Nathar wrote or uttered - Thiruppugazh Skandasashti Kavacham, Kandar Alangaram, Kamba Ramayanam, Shilappadikaram, the hymns of Alwars, Thiruppavai, Thiruvembavai.
		Over a period of time he learnt a bit of Sanskrit and would recite slokas from Valmiki Ramayana or the Mahabharatha to buttress his point presented in chaste Tamil.
	www.keralaiyers.com /mm2.html (1179 words)

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		Subsequent myths tend to ignore Savitri's intelligent bargaining and to emphasize instead her offer to exchange her own life for that of her husband, along with her capacity for endurance.
		There is also a Tamil epic, Shilappadikaram or "The Lay of Anklet," from about A.D. 450 in which the primary heroine is Kannaki, a devoted wife.
		She suffers the loss of her husband to beautiful courtesan but still offers to sell a gem-encrusted ankle bracelet to help him repay his depts.
	www.utc.edu /~smurgai/status.htm (8151 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Aryan-Dravidian Kinship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Tamil epics Shilappadikaram and Manimekhalai provide glorious descriptions of the legendary city and port of Puhar, which the second text says was swallowed by the sea.
		If the structure is confirmed to be man-made (and not a natural formation), its great depth would certainly push back the antiquity of Puhar.
		" The Shilappadikaram refers to him as "the great sage of the Pondiya hill," and a hill is still today named after him at the southernmost tip of the Western Ghats.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t46572.html (2627 words)

	Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) Translated by Alain Danielou. - ADIGAL, PRINCE ILANGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) Translated by Alain Danielou.
		ADIGAL, PRINCE ILANGO Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) Translated by Alain Danielou.
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		But Indian epics, a hundred times richer and vaster in human experience, a thousand times more present in the Indian consciousness, will not be taught to an Indian child.
		Not to speak of other important texts such as the beautiful Tamil epics, Shilappadikaram and Manimekhalai.
		Panchatantra and countless other highly educational collections of Indian stories - even folk stories - are ruled out.
	www.hscnet.org /hwp.php?articleid=26 (1258 words)

	Religious Studies
		In the last semester I have completed papers on Samkhya philosophy, Yoga, religious nationalism, and the role of women in the performance of Tantric rituals.
		This semester I plan to focus my studies on South India, and have begun reading classical Tamil poetry and the Tamil epic Shilappadikaram.
		I am interested in studying further the roles of women in the South Indian social context, and how these roles are reflected in, and shaped by, the religious texts and practices of the region.
	web.utk.edu /~religion/graduate/roster.php (1717 words)

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		JSTOR: Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet).
		Agrawala's study will be more use- ful.Amazon.com: Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet, at Within / Without 26 Responses to âTamil Culture, Kannagi and the Ankle Braceletâ
		S Agrawala's study will be more use- ful.Amazon.com: Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet) http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=796 Arbitrary Obsessions
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	Sangam Age in Kerala: a historical perspective by Dr. Zacharias Thundy surveys Kerala's anthropological, historical, ...
		This chapter will deal with the political and social history of Kerala: the Sangam Age, the Aryan Period, the Chera Times of the Kulasekharas, the Medieval Period (of Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar), Foreign Powers in Kerala (Portuguese, Dutch, and British), and Modern Kerala (political history and social developments).
		The Tamil Sangam works like Patittupattu, Purananooru, Akananooru, and Shilappadikaram are our major source, apart from tribal folklore, for informa-tion on the Cheras who eventually became Keralltes.
		During this time the Cheras lived primarily in Tamilakam or In the plains of Tamil Nadu.
	www.shelterbelt.com /KJ/khsangamage.html (1090 words)

	ADIGAL SHILAPPADIKARAM (THE ANKLE BRACELET); ADIGAL, I; Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ADIGAL SHILAPPADIKARAM (THE ANKLE BRACELET); ADIGAL, I; Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books
		English Books > Fiction > General & Literary Fiction > Modern Fiction > ADIGAL SHILAPPADIKARAM (THE ANKLE BRACELET)
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	Tamil related Books - Literature
		Cuppiramaniyan, A. Ve,.- Literary genres in Tamil: a supplement to a Descriptive Catalogue of Palm-leaf Manuscripts in Tamil,1st ed Madras, India: Institute of Asian Studies, 1993, 493p; 24cm
		- Shilappadikaram : The Ankle Bracelet - Ilango Adigal
		Danielou, Alan (translator) - Manimekhalai (The Dancer With the Magic Bowl) Paperback, July 1989
	www.tamilnation.org /books/Literature (1495 words)

	Welcome to Kuviyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This classical dance form follows the rules laid down in the science of 'parataNAddijam.' At the end of each dance performed for a particular song, as per the program, the musicians sounded all their instruments together as a sort of a finale for each item of dance.
		An English translation of 'cilappatikAram' by Alain Danielou is available as SHILAPPADIKARAM (The ankle Bracelet.), A New Directions Book Published in New York in 1965, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-16823.
		Alain Danielou sums up Madhavi's recital in these words:
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