SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS

Suicide behaviour has attracted attention not only from the professionals but also from writers, poets and philosophers of all times and all cultures. In this paper the author describes the suicide behaviour found in the great Tamil classic of the ‘Sangham’ period, PURANANURU, an anthology of the 11...

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Autores principales: Somasundaram, O.S., Babu, C. Kumar, Geethayan, I. Aruna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1989
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927385
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description Suicide behaviour has attracted attention not only from the professionals but also from writers, poets and philosophers of all times and all cultures. In this paper the author describes the suicide behaviour found in the great Tamil classic of the ‘Sangham’ period, PURANANURU, an anthology of the 11 century A. D. The incidents relate to the self immolation of Perun Koppendu on the death of her husband, the fast unto death of the Chera king when insulted by the prison guard and the suicides of important kings and poets after bereavement.
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spelling pubmed-29921142011-09-16 SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS Somasundaram, O.S. Babu, C. Kumar Geethayan, I. Aruna Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Suicide behaviour has attracted attention not only from the professionals but also from writers, poets and philosophers of all times and all cultures. In this paper the author describes the suicide behaviour found in the great Tamil classic of the ‘Sangham’ period, PURANANURU, an anthology of the 11 century A. D. The incidents relate to the self immolation of Perun Koppendu on the death of her husband, the fast unto death of the Chera king when insulted by the prison guard and the suicides of important kings and poets after bereavement. Medknow Publications 1989 /pmc/articles/PMC2992114/ /pubmed/21927385 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS
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title_full SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS
title_fullStr SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS
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title_short SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TAMILS
title_sort suicide behaviour in the ancient civilizations with special reference to the tamils
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927385
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