He cries, he falls, he blurts, he shouts, Talks he with others in a senseless blabber, Tatters on his person, his entire body is smeared with white paste of ash Twigs of the mighty tree has he gathered to hold together Neck adorned with a garland of bad odoured “ erukkam” flower, Shoulders adorned with garland of pink “ alari,” Manimekalai encounters a mad man on her way to the flower garden: Is there killing in this? Oh! Saint of true austerity! The sweet toddy matured in the palm of lush green branches!! Our leader has shown this that gives by itselfīliss during this birth! And deliverance in the coming birth! Will grieve like those shut up in unventilated dungeon! Manimekalai meets a drunkard who makes the following jibe at a Jain monk:
In this Uvavanam, Lord Buddha's sacred feet ( peedigai) were worshiped in a crystal palace. This maritime capital was an important center where many Vihars were founded by Mahendhir, Emperor Ashoka's close relative. This incident occurs in one of the streets of the Chola capital city of Pukar. This could be found in the personage of Aaputhiran.Ī very apt description of a schizophrenia subject is to be found when Manimekalai goes to the Uvavanam (Flower garden) along with her companion Sudhamathi to collect flowers for stringing a garland. In spite of his realistic allusions to the Vedic religion, Sathanar disapproves the caste system and rituals like cow sacrifice.
He has described the prevailing five religions in Tamil land along with the logic and the practice of the Buddha's faith in the various cantons of the poem a few centuries before the Chinese travelers Fa Hien and Huang Tsang. It is remarkable that he gathered this information in Pali language, the language in which Lord Buddha himself preached to the common people in their mother tongue. or the early third century broke new grounds by describing the teachings of Lord Buddha for the 1 st time in Tamil. The Buddhist poet Sathanar's epic Manimekalai in the late 2 nd century C.E. All these works are totally secular with few references to the pre-Aryan Gods of Lord Shiva, Murugan, and Kortravai. This period is renowned for the publication of the eight anthologies and 10 lyrics and also the 18 didactical works including Thirukkural. There are numerous notions relating to mental illness and mental health in Manimekalai, the Tamil Buddhist epic of the post- Sangam era of Tamil literature.
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