Dear Dr. Narayanaprasad, Here are some more works in English that will be of use to know about the ancient tolkAppiyam, said to be the first extant book. P. S....
... Dear List Members, Can anybody tell me whether a complete English translation of the following Tamil grammatical works is available ? (1) the PoruLatikAram...
... The bibliography at the end of John Ralston Marr's book, _The Eight Anthologies_ (Institute of Asian Studies, Madras, 1985) mentions several items by P.S....
... a) Even tho' this pertains to modern grammars, this may contin ref.s to NannUl: Tacaratan, A., 1950- / An annotated bibliography on modern Tamil grammars...
... I express sincere thanks to Dr Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD for supplying information about the English translation of the (1)PoruLatikAram portion of TolkAppiyam...
... This is difficult to say. I have not seen these items and I have seen contradictory bibliographical informations about P.S. Subrahmanya Sastri's ...
... Dear Narayan Prasad, thanks for your information. I too have been able to locate a reference, to part III, in an article published online by Ulrike Niklas...
sItA "a furrow or track of a ploughshare" ... Monier-Williams lists a variant zItA 'furrow' for sItA. Also, the M-W. dictionary connects sIrA 'plough' with...
Dear List Members, On enquiry about the complete English translation of the PoruLatikAram of Tolkappiyam (TP), Dr Jean-Luc Chevillard suggested me to search...
... I would recommend your reading books such as: _The Interior Landscape, Love poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology_, translated by A.K. Ramanujan, Oxford...
From Science Magazine, Volume 294, 2 November 2001, page 989: "In India, for example, Renfrew and Bellwood have proposed migration pathways from the fertile...
Friends, I was going thru old articles, and feel that it would be beneficial if we revisted or rather if could make a closure to questions posted by Thiru...
I hope a scholar like you will convince an Indological publisher in Delhi (eg., Motilal, Manohar, ...) or elsewhere in India to publish the entire translation...
An article in the Kanchi Kamakoti site says that the word ilakkanam has its origin in Sanskrit http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part7/chap4.htm. Is this...
... It's not correct to claim that Pallavas are Indo-Iranians. It's simply not true that Pahlava (Parthias of Iran) gave birth to the title, Pallava. Pallava...
... ilakkaNam is from skt lakSaNa and ilakkiyam is from skt lakSya. You can see both of them together in the following sentence written by the medieval...
... I think Ashok refers to "pulaiyan2" in sangam tamil when he writes "puLaiyan". Is that so?, your opinion is appreciated. Tamil and Malayalam "pulaiyan" has...
... **************************************************** KeshirAja's Shabda-maNi-darpaNa (c.1260 AD), the only exhustive grammar of Old Kannada, written in 343...
Dear List, AbhirAmi BhaTTar's rare and two pathikams on ThirukkaDvUr AbhirAmi Amman is enclosed as a .pdf document. Enjoy! The problem is "i" letter of Tamil...
Please take a look at Fig 9.3 in Parpola's book. This has been scanned, and is attached. Bertil Tikkanen's study of retroflexion shows a clear declining...
Dear Ganesan, thanks for this contribution. I wonder why in discussions on retroflexion nobody seems to mention professor Madhav M. Deshpande's book _Sanskrit...
Dear list members, I believe sending attached files along with your messages to CTAMIL is not advisable for several reasons: -- viruses could be contained...
... Can we load important documents in the Files section? I have seen that done in other Tamil lists. The IE list, IndianCivilization list etc. do allow files...
For a clear picture, I went for Fig. 17 in Asko Parpola, "Deciphering the Indus script: Methods and select interpretations", Keynote address delivered at the...
Vanakkam, I am a student who is interested in learning more about the Tamil Language. I have problems with certain words I come across when I read Tamil poetry...
... Dear Siva, vaNakkam kaNakkila (aneka vandanam in skt.). Are you an undergrad or a PG student? In Tamil or other humanities subjects? There is a good online...
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