Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre by Paula Richman

Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre

Shaps Library of Translations

Paula Richman

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For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally Tamil for a child), form a major genre of Tam...

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