Woman and the Sacred in Ancient Tamilnad
Woman and the Sacred in Ancient Tamilnad
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古代泰米尔纳德邦的女人与神圣
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10.2307/2052342
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发表时间：
1973
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G. Hart
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G. Hart
我们在古泰米尔语中拥有大量诗歌，这些诗歌在梵语文化入侵泰米尔语之前就已经存在了。这首诗，在八部选集和Pattuppāṭṭu中发现，可以追溯到公元一世纪和二世纪。产生它的文化是巨石文化的延续，在基督之前的千年里，巨石文化统治着德干。早期泰米尔诗歌对文化史的特殊重要性在于它描述了这种文明，根据Allchins的说法，在受到来自北方的梵语文化的明显影响之前，这种文明的特点是非常保守和不变的文化。因此，对早期泰米尔语的研究揭示了这种文化对印度的贡献以及后来被印度其他地区吸收的元素。这种文化的其他来源——例如Māhārāṣṭrī中的sattasa——显示了梵语文化的影响，因此不可能从它们中确定哪些元素最初属于德干文化，哪些属于北方文化。
We possess in ancient Tamil a large body of poetry which antedates for all intents and purposes the incursion of Sanskrit culture into Tamilnad. This poetry, found in the eight anthologies and the Pattuppāṭṭu, dates from the first and second centuries A.D. The culture which produced it was a continuation of the megalithic culture which dominated the Deccan for the millenium before Christ. The special importance of early Tamil poetry for cultural history is that it describes this civilization, which according to the Allchins was characterized by a very conservative and unchanging culture, before it was appreciably influenced by Sanskritic culture from the North. Thus a study of early Tamil reveals elements which were contributed to India by this culture and which were later assimilated by the rest of India. Other sources for this culture—the Sattasaī in Māhārāṣṭrī, for example—show the influence of Sanskrit culture, so that it is not possible to determine from them which elements belonged originally to the Deccan culture and which to the culture of the North.