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?Kannagi?, a gem of a housewife, a ?paragon of chastity?, has been immortalized in the pages of ?Silappadikaaram?, the famous Tamil epic of Ilango, the Chera prince-turned-ascetic. It is the story of a clash between three anklets: the anklet of the home, the anklet of the stage and the anklet of the palace.
An ill-fated housewife, Kannagi loses her husband, Kovalan, to the art of a dance, Madhavi, and finds him again only to lose him to the blind law of a king. Her story is set in the three ancient cities of South India ? Poompuhar, the Chola capital where she grew up, Madurai, the Pandya capital where she fell; and Vanji, the Chera capital which placed her on a pedestal.
The epic is a rich record of a great civilization, vivid with descriptions of edifices, shrines, docks, market-places, squares, of laws and rituals, of ?Natya Shastra? (Science of Dance), musicology and musical instruments of the day. Known for its high dramatic content, Silappadikaaram is a shining jewel in Tamil literature.
The memory of Ilango and his immortal classic has recently been perpetuated by the Tamil Nadu Government by erecting at Kaveripattinam, a magnificent seven-story art gallery ?Silappadikaaram Kalaikoodam?, in ancient Dravidian architectural style. The structure narrates the story in stone carvings.
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