கறநதக மரதததணயல ஊடல (பலவ) நணககம / Feigned Anger in Marutha Thinai Songs of Kurunthogai

The sangam age society comprise of love and valour. It is differentiated as Agam and Puram. The love life comprise of kalavu and karpu kadal. The literature defines kalavu is a life before marriage and karpu is a life after marriage. According to sangam age people, kalavu directs towards karpu. It is believed that if kalavu does not end in karpu it can’t be kalavu. Oodal is a stage than happens in karpu life. This article analyses Marutha Thinai songs of Kurunthogai. Marutham Thinai refers to the paddy fields and neighboring lands. After the hero and heroine get married, the hero leaves the home to live with courtesans (parathai). Hence, the Marutham Thinai poems talk about the hero’s (Thalaivan) infidelity and the heroine’s (Thalaivi) sorrow and resentment. The subject of the poems is called the uripporul. As the hero after marriage goes to parathai (love affair), the heroine drowns in sorrow because of hero’s behaviour. While the hero comes back to the heroine she doesn’t accepts him immediately. The reasons for the feigned anger (anger of heroine) that has been researched in this article. The article deciphers the main areas such as the hero’s reduced love on heroine, his disloyalty to his wife, his false promises and his disrespect towards the heroine and the gossip of the people about the hero.