veṭci

Tamil literature

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Tamil heroic poetry

  • ghatam
    In South Asian arts: Śaṅgam literature

    …hillside by night; and the veṭci genre, in heroic poetry, which dealt with the first onset of war, by nocturnal cattle stealing. Both kuṟiñci and veṭci are names of flowers that grow on the hillside, here symbolic of the poetic genre, the mood, and the theme. By such pairings across…

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