Author: Talaimalai Kannta Tevar [Thalaimalai Kanda Devar] [Atikalaciriyan]
Title: Maruturantati : (Palaiya uraiyutan) [Marudur Andadi]
Description: Tancavur, Narayanasvami, 1968. orig. wrappers. 22x13cm, (129) pp. Series: Pagination runs 4, 18, 105, 2 pp.. Some wear. One page torn. Some chips & tears to spine. Good. ¶ Series: Tancai Sarasvati Mahai Velivitu / Tanjore Sarasvati Mahal Series, 120. Tamil text. Includes a 3-page English preface. Verse. ["...Unlike many other authors of Andadi who have chosen to give vent to their thoughts in spontaneous and simpel expression, Thalaimalai Kanda Devar has set before himself a highly literary and embellished pattern of verse. Madakku is a literary technique in Tamil, consisting of the employment of pun and it is mingled here with the figure of sound called Yamaka. According to this technique, a word, simple or compound, is repeated with the symphony of alliteration, yielding at every repetition a different interpretation, either by panaromasia or by various syllabification of the expression.... The author has adopted this technique with remarkable success in this Andadi..." - from preface].

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