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- Das Sivagasindamani (Tamil: சீவகசிந்தாமணி Cīvakacintāmaṇi [ˈsiːʋəɡəsin̪ˌd̪aːməɳi]) ist ein tamilisches Epos. Es wurde wahrscheinlich im 10. Jahrhundert vom jainistischen Autor Tiruttakkadevar verfasst. Der Name des Werkes bedeutet „Sivagan, das Juwel, das alle Wünsche erfüllt“ (vgl. Chintamani). Das Sivagasindamani ist in 13 Kapitel eingeteilt und besteht aus insgesamt 3145 Vierzeilern in verschiedenen Variationen des -Versmaßes. (de)
- Civaka Cintamani (Tamil: சீவக சிந்தாமணி, romanized: Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, lit. 'Jivaka, the Fabulous Gem'), also spelled as Jivaka Chintamani, is one of the five great Tamil epics. Authored by a Madurai-based Jain ascetic Tiruttakkatēvar in the early 10th century, the epic is a story of a prince who is the perfect master of all arts, perfect warrior and perfect lover with numerous wives. The Civaka Cintamani is also called the Mana Nool (Tamil: மண நூல், romanized: Maṇa nūl, lit. 'book of marriages'). The epic is organized into 13 cantos and contains 3,145 quatrains in viruttam poetic meter. Its Jain author is credited with 2,700 of these quatrains, the rest by his guru and another anonymous author. The epic begins with the story of a treacherous coup, where the king helps his pregnant queen escape in a peacock-shaped flying machine but is himself killed. The queen gives birth to a boy. She hands him over to a loyal servant to raise, becoming a nun herself. The boy, Jivaka, grows up into a man, rather a superman, one who is perfect in every art, every skill, every field of knowledge. He excels in war and erotics, kills his enemies, wins over and marries every pretty girl he meets, then regains the kingdom his father had lost. After enjoying power, sex and begetting many sons with his numerous wives, the epic ends with him renouncing the world and becoming a Jain ascetic. The Tamil epic Civakacintamani is probably a compilation of many older, fantasy-filled unreal Tamil folk stories. The poet skillfully couples the martial adventures of the extraordinarily talented superman with graphic sexual descriptions of his affairs, along with lyrical interludes of his virtues such as kindness, duty, tenderness and affection for all living beings. The epic's love scenes are sensuous and loaded with double entendre and metaphors. The poetic style of the Civakacintamani epic is found in Tamil poetic literature that followed among Hindu and Jain scholars, attesting to its literary significance. Portions of the epic were ceremonially recited by members of the Tamil Jain community in the 19th century. Rare copies of its palm-leaf manuscripts were preserved by Tamil Hindus. U V Swaminatha Aiyar – a Shaiva pundit and Tamil scholar, discovered two copies of it in 1880 at the encouragement of the chief abbot of a Shaiva Hindu monastery in Kumbhakonam, one copy given by Tamil enthusiast Ramaswami Mutaliyar and the other by the monastery. Aiyar studied the epic's manuscripts under oil lamps, with guidance from Appasami Nayinar – a Jaina community leader, established a critical edition and published the first paper version of the epic in 1887. (en)
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- Sex in Civaka Cintamani
His garlands ripped,
the saffron on him was ruined,
his chaplet was charred,
– because
of the enthusiasm of intercourse,
her girdles broke,
her beautiful anklets cried out,
and the honeybees were scared off,
as the young couple made love. (en)
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- Das Sivagasindamani (Tamil: சீவகசிந்தாமணி Cīvakacintāmaṇi [ˈsiːʋəɡəsin̪ˌd̪aːməɳi]) ist ein tamilisches Epos. Es wurde wahrscheinlich im 10. Jahrhundert vom jainistischen Autor Tiruttakkadevar verfasst. Der Name des Werkes bedeutet „Sivagan, das Juwel, das alle Wünsche erfüllt“ (vgl. Chintamani). Das Sivagasindamani ist in 13 Kapitel eingeteilt und besteht aus insgesamt 3145 Vierzeilern in verschiedenen Variationen des -Versmaßes. (de)
- Civaka Cintamani (Tamil: சீவக சிந்தாமணி, romanized: Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, lit. 'Jivaka, the Fabulous Gem'), also spelled as Jivaka Chintamani, is one of the five great Tamil epics. Authored by a Madurai-based Jain ascetic Tiruttakkatēvar in the early 10th century, the epic is a story of a prince who is the perfect master of all arts, perfect warrior and perfect lover with numerous wives. The Civaka Cintamani is also called the Mana Nool (Tamil: மண நூல், romanized: Maṇa nūl, lit. 'book of marriages'). The epic is organized into 13 cantos and contains 3,145 quatrains in viruttam poetic meter. Its Jain author is credited with 2,700 of these quatrains, the rest by his guru and another anonymous author. (en)
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