Love In The Wooded Hill Slope: A Translation of Kalitokai (Kurinci)

Love In The Wooded Hill Slope is an English translation of Kalitokai (Kurinci). This work by the great Tamil poet Kapilar is among the famous Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature, more than 2000 years old.

Kalitokai depicts love in its five phases: union, separation, waiting for love, quarrel and lamentation. These love themes and different moods are depicted in different locales, offering a rich and verdant literary pasture.

This literary wine has matured well in two millennia and is now offered to you in free English verse.