maṇipravāḷa

Malayalam literary dialect

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In South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century)
…in a literary dialect called maṇipravāḷa (meaning “necklace of diamonds and coral”). The author of the Līlātilakam, a 14th-century treatise on grammar and poetics, describes both the Tamilizing and Sanskritizing trends and genres and insists on harmonious blendings. Many kinds of poems were composed in maṇipravāḷa styles: kūḍyāṭṭams (dramatic presentations…
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