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1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed here is a special one, a … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …