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Dehli, India: Motilal Banarsidass. Bound in clean red cloth boards, with gilt titles to spine, this dated 1987 First edition is in VG condition, in VG dust jacket (unclipped). 236p. Jacket is rubbed along top ende, and and bottom of spine. Internally clean, with a few foxing marks on pastedowns, and on text block edges. Otherwise all VG. Zvelebil has translated Matanakamarajan katai (The Story of King Matanakama),and Mayiliravanan katai (The Story of Peacock Ravana). The first of the two tales is in reality a collection of twelve stories narrated within a frame-story. The second tale belongs to a somewhat different genre, being an offshoot of the main narrative of the pan-Indian epic Ramayana, This is the first accurate as well as readable translation of the first tale in modern English, and the first translation of the second tale in any form. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1987.
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Two Tamil Folktales: The Story of King Matanakama, the Story of Peacock Ravana (Unesco Collection of Representative Works: Indian Series) Hardcover - 1987
by Kamil V. Zvelebil
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- Title Two Tamil Folktales: The Story of King Matanakama, the Story of Peacock Ravana (Unesco Collection of Representative Works: Indian Series)
- Author Kamil V. Zvelebil
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages lvii+236p.
- Language ENG
- Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Pub, New Delhi, India
- Date December 1987
- ISBN 9788120802124
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TWO TAMIL FOLK TALES: THE STORY OF KING MATANAKAMA AND THE STORY OF PEACOCK RAVANA
by Zvelebil, Professor Kamil V. (Translator)
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Two Tamil folktales: The story of King Matanakâma - The story of peacock Râvana. Translated from the Tamil by Kamil V. Zvelebil.
by TAMIL FOLKTALES - MAHABHARATA - RAMAYANA.
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Delhi - Paris: Motilal Banarsidass / UNESCO, 1987. Dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. [Lvii], 236 p. Two Tamil folktales: The story of King Matanakâma - The story of peacock Râvana. Translated from the Tamil by Kamil V. Zvelebil. "Taamil literary folklore has so far received little attention, in spite of a few early publications which appeared mostly in the 19th century. Mosst of Tamil literary texts translated into Western languages, or analyzed in Indological literature, belonged too the Tamil 'Great Tradition' of high literary culture. And yet, there exists an enormous wealth of oral and semi-oral traditions of verbal art in Tamil, as in any other Indian language; some of these pieces of literary folklore have appeared in print as chapbooks and are very popular with Tamil readers, but ignored by 'respactable' literary scholarship. The two folk-narratives…
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