Civaka Cintamani

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Civaka Cintamani is a classic Tamil epic poem, renowned for its ornate style and Jain-influenced narrative about the heroic prince Jivaka.

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Civaka Cintamani canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jain literature
Tamil epic poem
literary work
alternativeName Civaka Cintamani Kaviyam
Jivaka
surface form: Jivaka Cintamani
associatedWith Tamil Jain communities
author Tirutakkatevar
countryOfOrigin India
culturalContext South Indian courtly culture
featuresCharacter Jivaka
genre epic poetry
hasCharacterType ideal hero
multiple consorts
hasMainCharacter Jivaka
hasSetting various North Indian and South Indian kingdoms
influencedBy Jain narrative traditions
language Tamil
literaryDevice detailed catalogues and lists
hyperbolic description
literarySignificance important work of Jain Tamil canon
one of the major Tamil epics
literaryTradition Tamil literature
moralTheme impermanence of worldly pleasures
path to spiritual liberation
movement Jain Tamil literature
narrativeForm poem
verse narrative
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient narrator
period medieval Tamil literature
plotElement eventual renunciation by the hero
heroic exploits of Jivaka
romantic adventures
preservationStatus survives in multiple manuscript traditions
region Tamil Nadu
religiousTheme Jain ethics
karma
renunciation
religiousTradition Jainism
studiedIn Indology
Tamil literary scholarship
religious studies
stylisticFeature elaborate descriptions
highly Sanskritized vocabulary
ornate style
subjectMatter life of the heroic prince Jivaka
usedIn research on Jain influence in Tamil culture
studies of classical Tamil poetics

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Manimekalai relatedWork Civaka Cintamani
Tamil literature majorWork Civaka Cintamani