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Valaiyapadhi (Tamil: வளையாபதி, romanized: Vaḷaiyāpati, lit. 'Unbending Man'; transl. Strong Man), also spelled Valayapathi, is one of the five great Tamil epics, but one that is almost entirely lost. It is a story of a father who has two wives, abandons one who gives birth to their son, and the son grows up and seeks his real father. The dominant emotion of this epic is love, and its predominant object is the inculcation of Jain principles and doctrines.

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  • El Vaḷaiyāpati (tamil: வளையாபதி), también escrito Valayapathi, es una de las cinco grandes epopeyas tamiles, pero una que se ha perdido casi por completo.​​ Es la historia de un padre que tiene dos esposas, abandona a una que da a luz a su hijo, y el hijo crece y busca a su verdadero padre.​ La emoción dominante de esta epopeya es el amor, y su objeto predominante es la inculcación de principios y doctrinas jainistas.​ Los manuscritos de hojas de palma de la epopeya probablemente existieron hasta el siglo XIX, pero actualmente solo se conocen fragmentos inciertos de la epopeya a partir de los comentarios y la antología del siglo XIV Purattirattu. Basándose en estos fragmentos, la epopeya parece ser la historia de un comerciante con un negocio en el extranjero que se casó con dos mujeres.​ Abandonó a una, que luego da a luz a su hijo. También tiene hijos con la otra esposa. El hijo abandonado es acosado por niños extranjeros por no saber el nombre de su padre.​ Su madre luego revela el nombre del padre. El hijo viaja y se enfrenta a su padre, quien primero se niega a reconocerlo. Luego, con la ayuda de una diosa, trae a su madre cuya presencia prueba su reclamo. El padre acepta al niño y lo ayuda a iniciar su propio negocio.​ Las estrofas supervivientes de la epopeya, y los comentarios que mencionan a Valayapathi, sugieren que fue en parte un texto que disputaba y criticaba a otras religiones indias,​ que apoyaba las ideologías encontradas en el jainismo temprano, como el ascetismo, los horrores de la carne -comer (No violencia) y aversión monástica a las mujeres (celibato).​ Por lo tanto, es "casi seguro" es una epopeya jainista, escrita por un asceta tamil jainista, afirma Kamil Zvelebil, un estudioso de la literatura tamil.​ Según Zvelebil, probablemente se compuso alrededor del siglo X d.C.​ (es)
  • Valaiyapadhi (Tamil: வளையாபதி, romanized: Vaḷaiyāpati, lit. 'Unbending Man'; transl. Strong Man), also spelled Valayapathi, is one of the five great Tamil epics, but one that is almost entirely lost. It is a story of a father who has two wives, abandons one who gives birth to their son, and the son grows up and seeks his real father. The dominant emotion of this epic is love, and its predominant object is the inculcation of Jain principles and doctrines. Palm-leaf manuscripts of the epic likely existed until the 19th-century, but presently only uncertain fragments of the epic are known from commentaries and the 14th-century anthology Purattirattu. Based on these fragments, the epic appears to be the story of a merchant with an overseas trading business who married two women. He abandoned one, who later gives birth to his son. He has children with the other wife too. The abandoned son is bullied by overseas kids for not knowing the name of his father. His mother then discloses the father's name. The son travels and confronts his father, who first refuses to acknowledge him. Then, with the aid of a goddess, he brings his mother whose presence proves his claim. The father accepts the boy, and helps him start his own merchant business. The surviving stanzas of the epic, and the commentaries that mention Valayapathi, suggest that it was partly a text that was disputing and criticizing other Indian religions, that it supported the ideologies found in early Jainism, such as asceticism, horrors at meat-eating (Non-violence), and monastic aversion to women (Celibacy). It is therefore "almost certain" to be a Jain epic, written by a Tamil Jain ascetic, states Kamil Zvelebil – a Tamil literature scholar. According to Zvelebil, it was probably composed in or about the 10th-century CE. (en)
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  • El Vaḷaiyāpati (tamil: வளையாபதி), también escrito Valayapathi, es una de las cinco grandes epopeyas tamiles, pero una que se ha perdido casi por completo.​​ Es la historia de un padre que tiene dos esposas, abandona a una que da a luz a su hijo, y el hijo crece y busca a su verdadero padre.​ La emoción dominante de esta epopeya es el amor, y su objeto predominante es la inculcación de principios y doctrinas jainistas.​ (es)
  • Valaiyapadhi (Tamil: வளையாபதி, romanized: Vaḷaiyāpati, lit. 'Unbending Man'; transl. Strong Man), also spelled Valayapathi, is one of the five great Tamil epics, but one that is almost entirely lost. It is a story of a father who has two wives, abandons one who gives birth to their son, and the son grows up and seeks his real father. The dominant emotion of this epic is love, and its predominant object is the inculcation of Jain principles and doctrines. (en)
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