Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites

Tamil Siddha medicine in the present-day discourses on identity and tradition is often presented as an exclusively Tamil system of science. The following paper aims at showing some examples of quite different images of the Tamil Siddha tradition depicted in a few of the classical Tamil Siddha medic...

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Autor principal:	Ilona Kędzia
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	Tamil Siddha literature Tamil Siddha medicine Irāmatēvar Yākōpu Pōkar Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:06b9bf29f5c240d780a09c11e0dcac272021-11-27T12:53:33ZGlobal Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites10.12797/CIS.18.2016.18.051732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/06b9bf29f5c240d780a09c11e0dcac272021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1566https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 Tamil Siddha medicine in the present-day discourses on identity and tradition is often presented as an exclusively Tamil system of science. The following paper aims at showing some examples of quite different images of the Tamil Siddha tradition depicted in a few of the classical Tamil Siddha medico-alchemical texts. The following consideration concentrates on the works of two respected authors of Tamil Siddha literature, namely Irāmatēvar alias Yākōpu and Pōkar, both of whom may be regarded as particular cosmopolites among the Tamil Siddhas. The texts ascribed to Yākōpu and Pōkar suggest the cosmopolitan nature of both of the authors, which may be also reflected in the character of their teachings presented in their literature as a transcultural system of knowledge dedicated to the benefit of all mankind. Ilona KędziaKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleTamil Siddha literatureTamil Siddha medicineIrāmatēvarYākōpuPōkarIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 18 (2021)
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topic	Tamil Siddha literature Tamil Siddha medicine Irāmatēvar Yākōpu Pōkar Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
spellingShingle	Tamil Siddha literature Tamil Siddha medicine Irāmatēvar Yākōpu Pōkar Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Ilona Kędzia Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
description	Tamil Siddha medicine in the present-day discourses on identity and tradition is often presented as an exclusively Tamil system of science. The following paper aims at showing some examples of quite different images of the Tamil Siddha tradition depicted in a few of the classical Tamil Siddha medico-alchemical texts. The following consideration concentrates on the works of two respected authors of Tamil Siddha literature, namely Irāmatēvar alias Yākōpu and Pōkar, both of whom may be regarded as particular cosmopolites among the Tamil Siddhas. The texts ascribed to Yākōpu and Pōkar suggest the cosmopolitan nature of both of the authors, which may be also reflected in the character of their teachings presented in their literature as a transcultural system of knowledge dedicated to the benefit of all mankind.
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title	Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
title_short	Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
title_full	Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
title_fullStr	Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
title_full_unstemmed	Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites
title_sort	global trajectories of a local lore: some remarks about medico-alchemical literature of the two tamil siddha cosmopolites
publisher	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
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Global Trajectories of a Local Lore: Some Remarks about Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Two Tamil Siddha Cosmopolites

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