CHRISTOPHE VIELLE
UCLouvain christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THE VERNACULARISATION OF THE PUR\u0100\u1e46A-ITIH\u0100SA TRADITION: THE KI\u1e36IPP\u0100\u1e6c\u1e6c\u016cS OF KERALA <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When, between1790 and 1805, the Discalced Carmelite Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo (i.e. the Austro-Croatian Filip Vezdin, 1748-1806) used and quoted more than once in his Indological works an unidentified (by Ludo Rocher) \u201cSambhavam<\/em> [sa\u1e43bhava\u1e43 <\/em>inMalayalam script] <\/strong>seu Puranam <\/em>[pur\u0101\u1e47a\u1e43<\/em>]\u201d, \u201c<\/em>in lingua Samscrdamico-malabarica\u201d, which he ascribed to \u201cVedavy\u00e1sen Hesychasta\u201d, or, more recently, when Vettam Mani (1921-1987, Kottayam) in his Pur\u0101\u1e47ic Encyclopaedia <\/em>(1975, translated from the Malayalam) refers several times to an atypical \u201cBrahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da Pur\u0101\u1e47a\u201d (in 99 chapters) or to the \u201cSkanda Pur\u0101\u1e47a, Asura K\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da\u201d, in all these cases it is the vernacular (Malayalam) ki\u1e37ipp\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6d\u016d<\/em> versions of the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata, R\u0101maya\u1e47a and Brahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da- or Skanda-pur\u0101\u1e47as, which turn out to be the sources used by these two scholars. The characteristics of these local versions, composed in Kerala in the 16th<\/sup>-18 th<\/sup> centuries, and of the ki\u1e37ipp\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6d\u016d<\/em> \u201cparrot-song\u201d (ki\u1e37i-p-p\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6d\u016d<\/em>) genre itself as a means of transposing pur\u0101\u1e47a-itih\u0101sa <\/em>literature into Dravidian poetry, will be here highlighted, along with the fact that the Sanskrit Brahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da- and Skanda-pur\u0101\u1e47a models on which these ki\u1e37ipp\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6d\u016d<\/em>s are based are themselves peculiar works of medieval period specific to southern India or Kerala, different from the works we usually know by these titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHRISTOPHE VIELLEUCLouvain christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be THE VERNACULARISATION OF THE PUR\u0100\u1e46A-ITIH\u0100SA TRADITION: THE KI\u1e36IPP\u0100\u1e6c\u1e6c\u016cS OF KERALA When, between1790 and 1805, the Discalced Carmelite Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo (i.e. the Austro-Croatian Filip Vezdin, 1748-1806) used and quoted more than once in his Indological works an unidentified (by Ludo Rocher) \u201cSambhavam [sa\u1e43bhava\u1e43 inMalayalam script] seu Puranam [pur\u0101\u1e47a\u1e43]\u201d, \u201cin lingua Samscrdamico-malabarica\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}