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Re: Digest Number 626/ Reply on "nAmAs of Slokam 74:VishnuSahasranAmaA

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lsrinivas • June 6, 2002 


--- In bhakti-list@y..., "Hari Krishnan"  wrote:
> No.  There is no mention about Vasavadatta in any single line of 
Cilapadhikaaram.  Having gone through a considerable number of Tamil 
classics, I do not remember having read this name in any of the 
ancient books in Tamil.   There is a possibility that this name may 
appear in Manimekalai. However, I have not read Manimekalai. I just 
know the bare minimum details of the book. 


Dear friends, 

vAsavadattai is of course of central importance in KoGkuvELir's  
peruGkatai, edited by the late Mm dakshitya kalanidhi Sri U. Ve. 
Swaminatha Ayyar. 

vAsavadattai is also mentioned in our own ciRiya tirumaTal:

ArAnum collappaTuvAL allaLavaLkANIr 
vArAr vanamulai vAcavatattaiyenRu 
ArAnum collappaTuvAL  etc etc            (line 65-66)

Here, the AzvAr obliquely refers to why he as a woman (in 
nAyikAbhAvam) is doing maTal ERutal. As per Tamil grammar, only men 
have the right to do this if they can not attain their beloved. But 
vAsavadatta went after Udayanan (tArAr taTantOL taLaikkAlan pin 
ponAL) and is still celebrated. Thus there is a distinguished 
predecessor. 

Interested people might want to look up the vyakhyana chakravarti's 
traditional commentary. Sri Sudarsanam Swamy's gloss thereon gives 
the references to Bhasa's play and the Sanskrit brhatkatha and the 
kathasaritsagara but does not mention the Tamil peruGkatai of 
koGkuvELir. 

Hope this helps,

Lakshmi Srinivas




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