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    "id": 38,
    "title_ta": "சிலப்பதிகாரம்",
    "transliteration": "Silappathikaram",
    "type_en": "Kappiyam",
    "type_ta": "காப்பியம்",
    "category": "Kappiyam (Epic)",
    "collection": "Aimperunkappiyangal (Five Great Epics)",
    "level": "Work",
    "period": "Post-Sangam",
    "period_range": "c. 250–600",
    "period_code": "P",
    "date": "c. 5th–6th c. (trad. 2nd c.)",
    "author": "Ilango Adigal",
    "tradition": "Jain (ecumenical)",
    "extent": "3 kandams, 30 kathais, c. 5,000 lines",
    "status": "Extant",
    "notes": "Kannagi and Kovalan; 'muthamizh kappiyam' of iyal, isai, natakam.",
    "metadata_source": "Standard histories of Tamil literature",
    "project_madurai": {
        "numbers": [
            46,
            111,
            451
        ],
        "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0046.pdf",
        "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0046.html"
    },
    "wikisource_search": "https://ta.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D",
    "commentaries": {
        "project_madurai": [
            {
                "label": "சிலப்பதிகாரம் உரையுடன்",
                "pm": 451,
                "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0451.pdf",
                "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0451.html"
            }
        ],
        "archive_org": [
            {
                "kind": "உரை",
                "commentator": "ந. மு. வேங்கடசாமி நாட்டார் (வஞ்சிக் காண்டம்)",
                "year": "",
                "archive_id": "tdl.49482-3",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/tdl.49482-3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "tamil_text_archive": {
        "archive_id": "dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZl2kZpy.TVA_BOK_0003821",
        "url": "https://archive.org/details/dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZl2kZpy.TVA_BOK_0003821"
    },
    "english": {
        "project_madurai": [],
        "archive_org": [
            {
                "title": "V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, The Silappadikaram",
                "year": "1939",
                "archive_id": "in.gov.ignca.35913",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35913"
            }
        ],
        "published": "R. Parthasarathy, The Cilappatikaram (1992); Alain Danielou, Shilappadikaram (1965)",
        "online": ""
    },
    "archive_search": "https://archive.org/search?query=%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%20%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88"
}