ശ്രീഹരിയുടെ ജയിൽവാസവും ലക്ഷ്മീദേവിയുടെ ദാസ്യവൃത്തിയും

The paper consists of a proposal for making the immortal Kural by Thiruvalluvar a book of the nation. It presents arguments that go in support of the claim made pointing to its unique criteria that would not only make it the book of the Indian Nation but also would enable to become a book of the universe till eternity.

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Kuravilangidinte Samskarika Paithrukam, 2019

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2004

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ElamkulamKunjanPillai (1904-1973) -Attempted to rewrite history of Kerala on the basis of epic-graphic and literary sources-

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This essay illustrates how the dichotomies between divinity and mystic experiences of the poet-saints along with bhakti on the one hand, and kings and poets of the sovereign states on the other hand exhibit diverse forms of power relations within the realms of Tamil literary tradition and Tamil culture. The interrelationship between textual tradition and devotional processes has impacted upon the power relations among the poet-saints, devotees and divinities in a number of different implicit ways throughout South India from the beginning of Christian era. As for Tamil, the power relations that originally existed during the pre-Christian era between kings and poets within a dialogy of patronship, singing of the victories, praising of kings' caliber and so on transformed into a very diverse form of power relation during the medieval and modern periods where divinity, mystic experiences of the poet-saints along with the perception of bhakti play a major role in determining the power relation, demonstrating the paradigm of what Michel Foucault claims that power cannot be understood only as a juridical edifice of sovereign king, institution, group, elite, class rather a technique, a form of power. Two works of Aṇṭāḷ namely Tiruppāvai (sacred cowherd girl–containing 30 versus) and Nācciyār tirumoḻi (sacred utterances of the Goddess–containing 143 versus) are analyzed closely as to how they along with other similar texts play a significant role in the evolvement of diverse forms of power within the South Indian bhakti tradition, and thus exhibit a power relation involving the poet, text, divine and the devotee.

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2002

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in: Wilden, Eva and Suganya Anandakichenin (eds.), Colophons, Prefaces, Satellite Stanzas. Paratextual Elements and Their Role in the Transmission of Indian Texts. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Hamburg University, 2020. pp. 139–180, 2020

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Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2002

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