Which one of the following explains the practice of 'Vattakirutal' as mentioned in Sangam poems - UPSC pre 2023

 Which one of the following explains the practice of 'Vattakirutal' as mentioned in Sangam poems?

 

(a) Kings employing women bodyguards

 

(b) Learned persons assembling in royal

courts to discuss religious and philosophical matters

 

(c) Young girls keeping watch over agricultural

fields and driving away birds and animals

 

(d) A king defeated in a battle committing

ritual suicide by starving himself to

death

 

Analysis

Factual, Difficult

 

Which one of the following explains the practice of 'Vattakirutal' as mentioned in Sangam poems - UPSC pre 2023

Solution -  D


What is Vattakirutal?

 

Vattakirutal was a practice in which a

defeated king committed ritual suicide by starving

himself to death, accompanied by those who had been

close to him during his lifetime.

 

 

Sangam poems are concerned with two main topics:

 

1. love (akam)

2. heroism (puram), including kings' praise and deeds.

 

The goal of the hero of the Puram poems was pukal (glory, fame) and a heroic death was greatly valued.

 

People used to worship memorial stones (natukal).

 

A poem in the Purananuru suggests

that the bodies of warriors who did not die in battle

were cut with swords before the funerary rites, to

simulate death in battle

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