Pancha Marapu

Pancha Marapu (Tamil: பஞ்சமரபு pañcamarapu) is a 10th-century Tamil treatise on musical theory, written by Aṟivaṉār. The work is one of the isaittamiḻ texts referred to in Atiyarkkunallar's commentary on the Silappadhikaram. There is also a view it predates silappadikaram as silappadikaram refers to it ; so is devara pann methodology. Although it was long believed to be lost, a manuscript was discovered in the latter half of the twentieth century, and partially published in 1973.[1] A revised edition has since been published.[2]

The text deals with the music, musical instruments and percussion instruments (muḻavu)[3] of that period, and enumerates nine divisions of Tamil music, namely, cindu, cavalai, tiripatai, camapātaviruttam, centuṟai, veṇṭuṟai, peruntēvappāṇi, ciruntēvappāṇi, and vaṇṇam. [4]

References

  1. ^ Zvelebil, Kamil (1992). Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature. Leiden: Brill. p. 83. ISBN 90-04-09365-6.
  2. ^ Sundaram, V.P.K. (1991). Pancha Marapu (2nd ed.). The South India Saiva Siddhantha Works Publishing Society.
  3. ^ Kuppuswami, T. V.; T. K. Venkata Subramanian (1993). Rhythm in historical cognition. Delhi: Kalinga Publications. pp. 9–11. ISBN 81-85163-34-0.
  4. ^ Ramanathan, S. (1979). Music in Cilappatikaaram. Madurai: Madurai-Kamaraj University. p. 57.


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