ABSTRACT The oldest extant Tamil ‘place history’ (tala purāṇam) of a Sri Lankan temple is Taṭcaṇa Kayilāca Purāṇam, composed circa the sixteenth century, describing Koneswaram at Trincomalee, dubbed a ‘Southern Kailash’ to match Siva’s northern abode. At a crossroads of literary history, this text alludes to older Tamil Caṅkam and bhakti compositions, as well as contemporaneous South Indian purāṇas. Taṭcaṇa Kayilāca Purāṇam thus presents Lanka at an intersection of love-poetry landscapes and the waterways of tīrtha-centred purāṇic theology. The island teems with significant terrains of classical poetics, which are crossed by the Mahaweli River that meets the sea at Koneswaram. This spreads Siva’s presence over Lanka in Tamil terms, connecting the island with continental counterparts via the ocean in an aqueous network of Śaiva associations. Taṭcaṇa Kayilāca Purāṇam therefore makes history by using multiple literary techniques to emplace a Tamil homeland in Lanka, and Lanka in the world.

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使兰卡成为泰米尔人之路：风景和流域交汇处的庙宇历史

摘要斯里兰卡庙宇中现存的最古老的泰米尔语“地方历史”（Talapurāṇam）是塔加卡亚·卡伊拉卡·普兰加姆（TaṭcaṇaKayilācaPurāṇam），大约在16世纪组成，描述了亭可马里的Koneswaram，被称为“ Southern Kailash”，与Siva的北部居所相称。在文学史的十字路口，这段文字暗示着较早的泰米尔·卡姆（TamilCaṅkam）和巴克提（bhakti）作品，以及当代南印度的普拉亚（purāṇas）。TaṭcaṇaKayilācaPurāṇam则在爱情诗般的风景和以蒂萨为中心的纯粹神学的水路交汇处展示了兰卡。岛上到处都是古典诗意的重要地形，马哈威利河穿过马那威利河，在科涅斯瓦拉姆海相望。这以泰米尔语的形式将Siva的业务分布到整个lanka，通过Lankaaiva联结的水网络通过海洋将岛屿与大陆对岸连接起来。