It is to the Tamil culture what the Iliad is to the Greek culture, states R. The Silappathikaram is an ancient literary masterpiece. They go to the Himalayas, bring a stone, carve her image, call her goddess Pattini, dedicate a temple, order daily prayers, and perform a royal sacrifice. The King Cheran Chenkuttuvan and royal family of the Chera kingdom (Today Kerala) learns about her, resolves to build a temple with Kannagi as the featured goddess. In the third section of the epic, gods and goddesses meet Kannagi at Cheranadu and she goes to heaven with god Indra. The society that had made her suffer, suffers in retribution as the city of Madurai is burnt to the ground because of her curse. Kannagi curses the king and curses the people of Madurai, tearing off her breast and throwing it at the gathered public. She protests the injustice and then proves Kovalan's innocence by throwing in the court the other jeweled anklet of the pair. When Kovalan does not return home, Kannagi goes searching for him. The king arrests Kovalan and then executes him, without the due checks and processes of justice.
Kovalan sells it to a merchant, but the merchant falsely frames him as having stolen the anklet from the queen. Then she encourages her husband to rebuild their life together and gives him one of her jeweled anklets to sell to raise starting capital. She forgives him and tells him the pain his unfaithfulness gave her. Kannagi and Kovalan leave the city and travel to Madurai of the Pandya kingdom. Statues, reliefs and temple iconography of Kannaki are found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Kannaki (above) is the central character of the Cilappatikāram epic. Kovalan feels Matavi is unfaithful to him, and leaves her. Each interprets the song as a message to the other. Matavi then sings a song about a man who betrayed his lover. Kovalan sings a poem about a woman who hurt her lover. During the festival for Indra, the rain god, there is a singing competition. Kannaki is heartbroken, but as the chaste woman, she waits despite her husband's unfaithfulness. He falls for her, leaves Kannaki and moves in with Matavi. Over time, Kovalan meets Matavi (Madhavi) – a courtesan. Kannaki and Kovalan are a newly married couple, in love, and living in bliss. The Silappatikaram is set in a flourishing seaport city of the early Chola kingdom. It is attributed to a prince-turned-monk Iḷaṅkõ Aṭikaḷ, and was probably composed in the 5th or 6th century CE.
The Silappathikaram has more ancient roots in the Tamil bardic tradition, as Kannaki and other characters of the story are mentioned or alluded to in the Sangam literature such as in the Naṟṟiṇai and later texts such as the Kovalam Katai. The epic is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple, Kannaki and her husband Kovalan. It is a poem of 5,730 lines in almost entirely akaval ( aciriyam) meter. "the Tale of an Anklet"), also referred to as Silappathikaram or Silappatikaram, is the earliest Tamil epic.
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