The Tamil Plutarch containing a summary account of the lives of the Poets and Poetesses of Southern India and Ceylon; From the earliest to the present ... with select specimens of their compositions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...and the translation fqrrnsqne of the Appendjces to the second yqlume of his Qriental historical tylanuscripts. A'XgAVIRA'jA AMbf FQpaeSjTtr9 IBlhlSl. Of the biqgpphy pf this poet very few particulars have been preserved. Jll that is known of him is, that He was a native of Puliankudi, in thp Carnatic, born and bred up in a Jaina family; and fiaving madp poetry the, exclusive object of his study, acquired the high distinction of being considered the kmg of the poets, and as an improvisatqre hp'had scarcely any equal inliis day. He has left be: hind hima treatise cpntaiiiing rules for composing amatory poems, under the title of Agapporul Illakkanqm (siauGuneiPeasemw), which is now generally cqusu'ltpd as a standard authority on the subject.. ' ' Q:pf Ap'ter--$il emu.d,£-,#,# if. Ottakiiter, jyag one of the popts who flourished at the court of Iia'je'ndra Cbo/la, anjl that pf his son Kulotunga Cho'la. He excelled all his colleagues in the composition of war chants, called Pflrjjf. Hig KaU?igl.u Parani (a,6$ltBa,&giuunesi$), in which he celebratpfj the qqnqupstqf the Kalinga country by Kulo'tunka Cho'La is a matphlpsg production of the kind, and it is related that the he: ro of the popm wds so rnuch pleased with it, that he rewarded him by rolling a golden pocoanut h.t the end of every stanza, as it was recited; but this is manifp§tl-an oriental exaggeration. The Uttarakdnda which forrns the seypntji book of the Ramayayaty was composed by pttakuter, and was with the approval of Kamber himself inCorporatep with his own work. This though written in the same metre and style as the other six books, yet on a close inspection an inferiority is perceptible, as much as can be discovered between the jirst part qf Dryden's Absalom, and Achitophel, and the s...