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The Epic of Maṇimēkhalai
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Source of the Stories
The Manimekalai is one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature, and one of three that have survived into the modern age. The Manimekalai is widely considered an important text that provides insights into the life, culture and society of the Tamil regions (India and Sri Lanka) in the early centuries of the common era. The last cantos of the epic are also a window into then extant ideas of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Jainism, Ājīvika, and Hinduism, as well as the history of interreligious rivalries and cooperation as practiced and understood by the Tamil population in a period of Dravidian–Aryan synthesis and as the Indian religions were evolving.
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