Kannagi- A Legendary Tamil Women In The Epic Silapathikaram

Abstract

Ilango’s Silappatikaram, however, is important because it is his rendition of the possibly earlier folk tale that was used as a model for subsequent renditions of the story in varied genres in later centuries. Moreover, it is his work and his story that the Dravida movement picked up in the twentieth century and presented to a new reading public as holding a mirror to ancient Tamil culture, Tamil literary genius and Tamil ideals of womanhood.