Maranakapporulum Tiruppatikkovaiyum. The Maranakapporul and the Tiruppatikkovai of Tirukkurukaipperumal Kavirayar. A treatise on Tamil poetics illustrated with a narrative poem.

This book contains the first complete edition of a sixteenth-century Tamil treatise in 364 sutra-s about Tamil love-poetry, the Maranakapporul of Tirukkurukaipperumal Kavirayar, and of an accompanying Vaisnava love poem of 527 stanzas, the Tiruppatikkovai, penned by the same author. The poem illustrates the rules of the treatise, for it contrives to string together into a single narrative the various situations envisaged in the shorter love poems of classical Tamil literature of the Sangam age. It culminates in the amorous couple living as pious devotees of Nammalvar, the poet-devotee of Visnu. Elaborate notes in Tamil by the editor elucidate the text, which is preceded by introductions in English and in Tamil.