Nature and Naturalism in Pallu, Kuravanchi

Abstract

Pallu and Kuravanji are the best proof that sitrilakiyam is layman literature. Pallu and Kuram are the easiest to read among the 96 Prabandha types. Explanatory text is unnecessary. They are artful in expressing the sentiments of the common people in their language. As it is a literature that talks about soil like regional literature, it is a literature with a natural background of water resources and land. The two Prabandhams, Mukudal Pallu and Thiru Courtala Kuravanchi, have Folk literary characteristics. With the field-based records of the cultivators, the natural resources of Mukudal pallu are like rainfall, water supply, list of rice varieties, types of bullocks used for ploughing. Courtala Kuravanchi is a collection of plants, flags and birds as the background of the life of the Kuravar people in the fertile nature of the hill country called Kurinji. Therefore, this essay states that sitrilakiyam is the language of nature.