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Translations based on: Ettuttokai; Pattuppattu; and Tolkappiyam."
In these translations, A.K. Ramanujan's foundational text has won the devotion of scholars and readers of rich literature for decades. This edition retains Ramanujan's careful, consistant rendering of works by nearly 500 poets, illuminating ancient stories of love and war and...
Poet, translator, folklorist A. K. Ramanujan has been recognised as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennia ago. This edition contains...