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    "id": 39,
    "title_ta": "மணிமேகலை",
    "transliteration": "Manimekalai",
    "type_en": "Kappiyam",
    "type_ta": "காப்பியம்",
    "category": "Kappiyam (Epic)",
    "collection": "Aimperunkappiyangal",
    "level": "Work",
    "period": "Post-Sangam",
    "period_range": "c. 250–600",
    "period_code": "P",
    "date": "c. 6th c.",
    "author": "Seethalai Sathanar",
    "tradition": "Buddhist",
    "extent": "30 kathais, c. 4,750 lines",
    "status": "Extant",
    "notes": "Sequel to Silappathikaram; Manimekalai becomes a Buddhist nun.",
    "metadata_source": "Standard histories of Tamil literature",
    "project_madurai": {
        "numbers": [
            141,
            818
        ],
        "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0141.pdf",
        "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0141.html"
    },
    "wikisource_search": "https://ta.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88",
    "commentaries": {
        "project_madurai": [
            {
                "label": "ஔவை சு. துரைசாமிப் பிள்ளை உரை",
                "pm": 818,
                "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0818.pdf",
                "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0818.html"
            }
        ],
        "archive_org": [
            {
                "kind": "விளக்கவுரை",
                "commentator": "பொ.வே. சோமசுந்தரனார்",
                "year": "1971",
                "archive_id": "20221207_20221207_0657",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/20221207_20221207_0657"
            },
            {
                "kind": "தெளிவுரை",
                "commentator": "",
                "year": "",
                "archive_id": "tdl.41592",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/tdl.41592"
            }
        ]
    },
    "tamil_text_archive": {
        "archive_id": "ims-0334-manimegalai-sarithai-1922",
        "url": "https://archive.org/details/ims-0334-manimegalai-sarithai-1922"
    },
    "english": {
        "project_madurai": [
            {
                "translator": "Kausalya Hart",
                "pm": 710,
                "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0710.pdf",
                "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0710.html"
            },
            {
                "translator": "A. Madhaviah",
                "pm": 755,
                "pdf": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0755.pdf",
                "text": "https://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0755.html"
            }
        ],
        "archive_org": [
            {
                "title": "Manimekalai (English)",
                "year": "1928",
                "archive_id": "ims-0461-manimekalai-1928",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/ims-0461-manimekalai-1928"
            }
        ],
        "published": "Alain Danielou, Manimekhalai (1989)",
        "online": ""
    },
    "archive_search": "https://archive.org/search?query=%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88%20%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88"
}