Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tamil classic “Kuruntogai” (குறுந்தொகை) gets new avatar


The Tamil Sangam work “Kuruntogai” (குறுந்தொகை) has been translated for the first time in Assamese by prominent poet and Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar recipient Bijoy Sankar Barman. Bijoy Sankar Barman said that, “Kuruntogai” (குறுந்தொகை) was an effort to build a bridge between the two cultures, Assamese and Tamil.
 About Kuruntogai: Kuruntokai (Tamil: குறுந்தொகை), a classical Tamil poetic work, is the second book of Ettuthokai, a Sangam literature anthology. Kuruntokai contains poems dealing with matters of love and separation (அகம்) content matter and were written by numerous authors. Nachinarkiniyar, a Tamil scholar living during the sixth or the seventh century C.E. has annotated this work.

யாயும் ஞாயும் யாரா கியரோ,
எந்தையும் நுந்தையும் எம்முறைக் கேளிர்,
யானும் நீயும் எவ்வழி யறிதும்,
செம்புலப் பெயனீர் போல,
அன்புடை நெஞ்சம் தாங்கலந் தனவே.
-செம்புலப் பெயனீரார்.

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