Chettiarthodi Rajendran
Biographic Data
| ID | 6802202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chettiarthodi Rajendran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chettiarthodi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajendran |
| SIGNATURE | RAJENDRAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calicut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4265-7313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translation as a ‘Superhuman’ Feat
Koṭuṅṅallūr Kuññikkuṭṭan Tampurān (1864–1913) completed a verse translation of the Mahābhārata in just 874 days, reproducing the exact metres of the original text. This unique work is superior in literary merit to the earlier fourteenth- and fifteenth-century attempts to translate the Mahābhārata within Kerala’s musical song tradition known as pāṭṭu. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, when scholarly translations rather than free a…
Celebrating Violence
This paper is an attempt to probe into depiction of violence and death in the classical Sanskrit drama, especially in its avatar as Kūṭiyāṭṭam, a living performative tradition related to the temple theatre of Kerala. Stage depictions of terrible scenes of violence, and death as the culmination of it, will be examined here in the context of semiotics by including in its ramifications costume, colour scheme, tonal features and acting. The paper wil…
A Scholar Poet from the Neighbouring Land
A Scholar Poet from the Neighbouring Land: Uddaṇḍa Śāstrin’s Perceptions of Kerala The present paper proposes to investigate the perceptions of Kerala in the works of Uddaṇḍa Śāstrin, a remarkable scholar, who came in search of patronage to the court of Mānavikrama, the Zamorin of Calicut of the 15th century A.D, from Lāṭapura, a famous Brahmin centre in Toṇḍamaṇḍala, in Chengalpattu, in the present Tamil Nadu. Often stereotyped as a haughty outs…
Sanskritization of Regional History
Mūṣikavaṃśa (also known as Mūṣakavaṃśa) is a historical mahākāvya written by Atula, who was a court poet of King Śrīkaṇṭha, alias Rājadharma, who lived in the 11th century AD. The work antedates even Rājataraṅginī of Kalhaṇa, which is regarded as one of the earliest historical mahākāvyas in Sanskrit. The work deals with the history of the Mūṣika dynasty, which ruled the Kolattunādu kingdom of North Kerala. The earlier parts of the mahākāvya deal …
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Sanskritization of Regional History
Mūṣikavaṃśa (also known as Mūṣakavaṃśa) is a historical mahākāvya written by Atula, who was a court poet of King Śrīkaṇṭha, alias Rājadharma, who lived in the 11th century AD. The work antedates even Rājataraṅginī of Kalhaṇa, which is regarded as one of the earliest historical mahākāvyas in Sanskrit. The work deals with the history of the Mūṣika dynasty, which ruled the Kolattunādu kingdom of North Kerala. The earlier parts of the mahākāvya deal …
A Scholar Poet from the Neighbouring Land
A Scholar Poet from the Neighbouring Land: Uddaṇḍa Śāstrin’s Perceptions of Kerala The present paper proposes to investigate the perceptions of Kerala in the works of Uddaṇḍa Śāstrin, a remarkable scholar, who came in search of patronage to the court of Mānavikrama, the Zamorin of Calicut of the 15th century A.D, from Lāṭapura, a famous Brahmin centre in Toṇḍamaṇḍala, in Chengalpattu, in the present Tamil Nadu. Often stereotyped as a haughty outs…
Celebrating Violence
This paper is an attempt to probe into depiction of violence and death in the classical Sanskrit drama, especially in its avatar as Kūṭiyāṭṭam, a living performative tradition related to the temple theatre of Kerala. Stage depictions of terrible scenes of violence, and death as the culmination of it, will be examined here in the context of semiotics by including in its ramifications costume, colour scheme, tonal features and acting. The paper wil…
Translation as a ‘Superhuman’ Feat
Koṭuṅṅallūr Kuññikkuṭṭan Tampurān (1864–1913) completed a verse translation of the Mahābhārata in just 874 days, reproducing the exact metres of the original text. This unique work is superior in literary merit to the earlier fourteenth- and fifteenth-century attempts to translate the Mahābhārata within Kerala’s musical song tradition known as pāṭṭu. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, when scholarly translations rather than free a…
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