Love, Mobility, and Materiality: A Critical Study of Merchant Imagery in Akanānūru
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https://doi.org/10.63300/kijts04052026.45Keywords:
Sangam Literature, Akanānūru, Salt Merchants, Akam-Puram, Love, Trade, Mobility, SimileAbstract
This paper examines the role of salt merchant imagery in Akanānūru and its significance in shaping the concept of love within Sangam poetics. Moving beyond surface-level description, the study argues that merchant figures function as a structural device linking emotional experience (akam) with socio-economic realities (puram). Through close textual analysis, the paper demonstrates how themes of mobility, risk, trade, and survival inform representations of love, particularly in contexts of separation. The study highlights how economic life is not external to love but deeply embedded within its poetic expression.
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