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Specific Features of the Tamil Ballad Kucalavaṉ katai (The Story of Kusalavan)
Ch. 8. P. 133–138.
Dubyanskiy A.
In the present article, a description of one of the variant stories based on the Rāmāyaṇa is offered. It is Kucalavaṉ katai (The Story of Kusalavan) in the Tamil language, composed in a form which is usually, by Western and also Indian scholars, defined by the English term ‘ballad’. But its original name is katai, i.e. kathā in Sanskrit (‘story’), or pāṭṭu (‘song’).
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