When Blame Turns into Praise: Sisupala’s Soliloquy in Villiputturar’s Paratam

This article examines how Villiputturar’s fourteenth-century Paratam, the most important Tamil retelling of the Mahabharata, focuses on Sisupala’s tirade against Krsna at Yudhisthira’s sacrifice. This passage, which has fascinated many poets across the subcontinent over many centuries, is dealt with...

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Main Author: Anandakichenin, Suganya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2022
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 296-317
Further subjects:B Villiputtūrār
B Śiśupāla
B Mahābhārata
B Pāratam
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