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Abstract
Literature is the collection of human thoughts and various contexts are created in literature. Among those literatures, Parani is one among the small literary genres that appeared during the Nayak period and it plays an important role in literature. Thakayagaparani is the second to appear among the Parani texts. Many parables are described in Thakayagaparani text. Parables helps us to understand the unknown thing or ideas with the known. There are no songs without a parable. Thus the comparison of Chola's wheel with the sun, women's eyes with kayal fish, Chola's fire with the natural fire, demon's belly with cloud, water with floods, goblins with mountains, tornadoes with fire, Tirumal with Brahman. Thus the article clearly describes the parables that are explained in the Thakayagaparni text.
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