Study of Civakacintamani

SR No.: 001579
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijaylaxmi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 248
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Epistemology
File Size: 15 MB

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Study of Civakacintamani
kinds of lands, the meeting and love episodes of Patumai and Civakar etc. But indirect influence of such descriptions is found in the Gc. An analysis of some of the examples" which are quoted above to explain the similar decriptions found in both books will show Vadıbhasimha's indebtedness to the Cc. These are discussed under two sections ;
1. The examples which show that the knowledge of the Cc. is necessary to understand what is said in the Gc.
2. The examples in which one can see the influence of Tamil literary traditions an the Gc. which came thraugh the Cc.
1. In the example no, 8,1 the chief of the cowherds asks Civakan to accept his daughter without considering that she belongs to a lower caste. To support his request Kõvintan cites precedents where other illustrious persons had married girls from lower càstes. Here he quotes lord Murukan who married Valți as one of the precedents.
"According to early Tamil literary thought, Murukan is the deity of Kuriñci land, one of the five kinds of landscape, 2 and he is supposed to live on the hill tops, Valli is-the daugnter of one of the Kusavar, the hunting tribes, the, inhabitants of hilly land, 3: The abduction of Valli was considered as one of the sacred sports of lord Murukan. According to Tamil poetical tradition different situations of love and war are attributed to different lands. 4 Kaļavu (pre-maritial love) is the love situation appropriate to Kuriñci, and tho myth of Murukan and Valli is also based on this tradition. The myth of Murukan and Valli is referred to in the carly Tamil poems. the following examples illustrale this:
In the following lines of the 82nd verse of Narrinai, the hero asks the heroine whềther she is accompanying him as Valli who went with lord Murukan.
vēy vanappurra tölai niye ennul varutiyo nan națaik koțicci muruku punarnt iyanra vaļļi pola... 5
(Oh the one with shoulders which have the beauty of a bamboo, you are coming with me like Valli 'who was united with Murukan.)
Similar references are also found in the later Cankam works like the Paripāțal and the Tirumurkārruppatai The following lines from Paripāțal show the relat onship between Murukan and Vali
1 Supra, p. 15. 2 Ref. chapter 4, for detailed knowedge about the divisions of land and the aspects conected to it. 3 In South India still the Kuravar are referred to as "Valliammai Kūţtam' (the followers of goddess
Valiammai). Edgar and Thurstan, Castes and tribes of Southern India, The Govt. Press, Madras,
1909. jii, p. 459. 4. Ref. Chapter 4, 5 Narriņia, published by South India Saiva Siddhanta works, Tinevely, 3rd edition, January, 1962, v. 82,