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Postscript: Samkhya and Poetry...................................................................... 5
Postscript: Samkhya and Poetry...................................................................... 5
Contents
Samkhya and Poetry......................................................................5
1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Prologue
4. Pre-Marital Love
5. Post-Marital Love
6. Anthology
7. Sexual Union
8. Siddhi Immortality
9. Epilogue
10.
Postscript
Ann 1 Kamasutra chapter on Sexual Union
Ann 2: Tamil Poets
Ann 3: Sixty-four Arts
Plan A
Additional Chapter: Music and Dance
Epilogue: Decline and Fall
Postscript: Remaining
Postscript: Proposed Contents
1. Sources
2. Social and Historical Perspective
3. Early Poetry
4. Paripatal, Late Poetry
5. Concept of Ananku
6. Bio
7. Tamil Concept of Love
8. Decline and Fall of Tamil Love Poetry
9. Music
10.Dance
11.Siva/ Saivism/ Tantra/ Samkhya Philosophy
12.Rise and Fall of Goddesses
13.Samkhya and Poetry
14.Tantra and Tamil literature
15.Saiva Siddhanta and Samkhya
Notes on Content (earlier)
Introduction
Prologue
Epilogue
Postscript
Sources
Social and Historical Perspective
o (History -- from Mahadevan epigraphy book
o Each of Eight anthologies and tolk, IA etc
o 3 periods -- from Drama book
o Origin of poems / Reconstructing earliest literature,
religion, etc)
Music and Ragamala Painting
Dance
Paripatal / Bhakti
Saivism
Tantra
Sakti and Goddesses / Rise and Fall of Goddesses / Five gods
and Five goddesses connection to woman
Appendix
Note
Web site