... Use any TSCII tamil font to read my thoughts on the caste's existence in CT times. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agathiyar/message/14437 Prof. George Hart...
... Avestans did have a three fold division of society resembling very much the Varna system of the Rig Vedic Aryans but not the the Jati system of later...
... As mentioned before, these are Prof. G. Hart's words: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTamil/message/521 While the jAti divisions found in India are not seen...
... [...] ... On Nannul translations along with details of Joyes-Samuel Pillai's 19th century effort, K. Zvelebil (p. 194, Tamil literature, Leiden/Koln:E. J....
Sanskrit studies of M. B. Emeneau, Selected papers (edited by B. A. van Nooten), UC, Berkeley) includes "Notes on 'SrIharSa's NaiSadhacarita", p. 29-42. On p....
Fwd from TSCII egroup. ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tscii/files/charset17_a.gif ... A question in my mind for a long time: Are there any Devanagari (eg.,...
ziliimukha ... ziliimukha is known in the MBh. epic as a word for 'arrow' and in kAvya, as both an 'arrow' and 'bee'. Perhaps, having a sharp mouth (ie., a...
Dear NG, as far as I know, several reviews of Dr Tieken's book are in the process of appearing in various indological journal. There will be (at least): one in...
... Dear Friend, for the reasons stated in a former message, I think I should reserve these explainations until the book appears :-) ... You (and NG) are...
... Dear Sir, Tamil is listed in the Indian Constituition Eigth Schedule: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/in01000_.html ... Schedule VIII] Eighth Schedule...
... Robert hardgrave's follwing remarks are noteworthy. "Rather than leading India toward a "casteless" society, the policy of reservation has reinforced caste...
... Jonathan Parry's empirical work on Bhilai Steel Plant (in _Institutions and Inequalities_, ed. Guha and Parry) for is a noteworthy refutation. "The...
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>treatise like Akattiyam, composed by a semi-mythical figure Akattiyar (Agastya)
>must have been extant in hoary antiquity. >This paripATal line...
... Dear list members, As a contribution to this thread, let me quote the end of the abstract of a lecture that prof. Madhav M. Deshpande (university of...
Has anyone made a survey of 100 most used words in Tamil? By "used tamil", I don't necessarily mean academic or literary Tamil, but as Tamil spoken by ordinary...
... Yes, I remember that when I first visited Madurai Kamaraj University some twenty years back, I was shown a PhD thesis that contained a word frequency list...
... Dear Chandra, as noted by professor François GROS in 1968, in his French translation of paripATAl (published by the French Institute of Pondicherry) it...
... As a secondary reference please try the following: Adeltha P. Siitaa Devii (1967):"Indian Language Highway for All", A Broad 17-Language Highway through ...
... Dear NG, I thought the earliest reference to Shiva was in puRam. See George Hart's translation of puRam 56, (p. 42, in _The Four Hundred Songs of War and...
... Dear JLC, There is something else interesting about this poem, if I may. 1. The colophon says it is by "maturai kaNakkAyanAr makanAr nakkIranAr pATiyatu"....
... It has been postulated that there has been several poets by the name nakkIrar (as you know, he is also credited with the authorship of the commentary on ...
Today is Thai Puusam, an important festival for the ancient god of India whose name is Murukan. Hindu devotees all over the world make prayers and penances to...
vaNakkam thamizh anbargaLE, I kindly request knowledgeable list members to send me some pointers on introductory ( very basic ) books and on-line material on...
... for ... Thanks, JLC, for your prompt response. Unfortunately I am on the road, so can not give exact references. I feel not many temples to Siva have been...
... Dear Vivek, For learning Tamil, some books: http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9707&L=indology&P=R358 Next, will give my choice of some good books ...
... high ... mention ... I feel that we might have been ignoring some important lines that mention Siva in early CT poems. Consider maturaik kAJci that talks...
... We cannot say paripATal was a new literaru genre. We must keep in mind that these were musical compositions and by definition they differ in metre. We have...
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