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Purananuru wonders-34, Tamil Encyclopedia-74; One Thousand Interesting Facts -Part 74

Item 579

Following details are from The Smil of Mrugan by Tamil scholar Kamil Zvelebil who quotes another Sril Lankan Tamil scholar:

Purananuru – early strata – Poems 248-357;

121  poems have defective colophons and so no heroes.

141 poems praising heroes- Paadaan Thinai in Tamil;

43 elegies; Kaiyarunilai in Tamil.

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Item 580

Kings 18+13+12= 43

27 poems about  18 Cera Kings

74 poems about  13 Choza/Chola Kings

37 poems about  12 Pandya Kings

141 poems about  48 Chietains

Four philanthropists Pari (paari), Kari (kaari), Anji, Bekan – Four poems each;

157 poets sang 397 poems in Puram.

14 poems anonymous;

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Item 581

Some poems are fully reflexive; i.e.deals with impermanence of life;

Modern attempts to read ethical and  moral motivation into the words of the bards are particularly strained if not irrelevant .

Copied by me (London swaminathan) on 5-3-1995.

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IF YOU SEE ONLY NUMBERS, THEY DENOTE PURANANURU VERSES

Item 582

Angry poems –  Puram.197-210

Item 583

Sanskrit months- Thai/tishya- 70,

Tamil Sangam- 72

Handicapped –  20, 74,

Item 584

Drone, Pilotless plane- 27

Astronomers-30

Mars- 60

Saturn -117

Venus- Puram.35, 388, 117,385, 386, 397. Madurai-106-109; Pattina-1/2; Akam.17; Perum.318;Narri-230; Narri.356;

Mercury – Budhan- Paripatal 11.

Comet-117, 229.

Asura Guru Venus/Sukra, Deva Guru- Brhaspati Jupiter- Kali 99-1,2.

Seven Star- Sapta Rishi- Ursa Major- Narrinai- 231; Pari 5-37; Par.5-43

Kartika/ Six stars (Pleiades)- Pari.5-43; Murugu-255; Akam.141;

Onam/Sravana star- Madu590-591;

Star Arudra/ Betelgeuse- Pari 8-6; Kali 150-20;

Agastya star (canopus)- Pari.11-11

Star Arundh ati in Ursa Major- Puram 122; Akam.16; Pari.5-43; Perum.302; Ainkuru-442; Kali  2-21; Pathtru 89-19/20.

Rohini- Aldebaran-  Nedunal-161/163;Akam.136;

Makam star- Pattina.33/38;

Avittam/Sravishta, Bharani-Pari.11;

Anusham- Puram 229;

Zodiac- Puram.229

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Item 585

World is a drama stage- 29

Great sins- 34

Monsoon as in Kalidasa’s Meghadhuta- 34, 66

Five headed snake- 37

Thumb high Valakhilya Rishis- 43,

Sand particles become pearls- 53 (as in Bhartruhari, Varahamihira etc)

Yavana/ Roman Wine- Puram 56,

Tali/ mangala sutra- 127,

Yupam – Yaga Yajna post- Puram.15, 224, 400

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To be  continued……………………