Dear List, Taking a look at the slots occupied by Tamil characters in TSCII 1.7 encoding for Tamil, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tscii/files/charset17_a.gif ...
... Dear NG, forgive me for saying it bluntly, but I believe your energy and your enthusiasm would be better employed by other tasks. Personnaly, as a...
... Thanks, Dr. JLC for your input on tamil script reform. Surely, compared to Chinese script, anything else is easier. Even compared to the Nagari script of...
I asked a friend to buy the tivAkara nikaNTu published by Madras University. The bookstore said only vol. 2 is available. How many volumes were published, 2 or...
... Dear NG, this first critical edition of tivAkaram is a most useful book. There are 2 volumes in all. Vol. 1 was published in 1990 and Vol. 2 in 1993. Vol....
... If you absolutely want to change, why not use the same system as with the grantha letters and write ku, etc. in the same way as ju, etc.? There is no need...
... I bought both the volumes last September at the University bookstore. If your news is true, I have been lucky! BTW How come only Vol 2 is available? I...
NG> >Learned scholars like Prof. V. C. Kulandaisamy (who ... Your suggestion has been tried out in a much larger scale in the Newspaper, Swadesha Mithran...
A side note: It's very easy to learn all the tamil characters for integers. True. But still, thank god, we got out of that practice. Also, it's not that...
... Dear Dr. JayBee, Congratulations on a good job! A brief on UVS in German http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/kolam/kolam1/uvecadoc.html (see Aiyar's...
It seems Mr. Poopathi Manickam, a long time member in this list does not like that caste and pulaiyan are mentioned in sangam classics. A mention of my name...
Hi Members, I would like to know what was the exact time period in which the word pallan used in CT,also what is the cannotation of the word and any ...
... Greetings, in order to be unambiguous, it is preferable to use the standard translitteration scheme for Tamil words. Members of this list usually...
Prof. Norman Cutler (1949-2002) ... We are saddened to hear the sudden demise of prof. Norman Cutler. Had the opportunity to meet with him twice, once in...
... Yes this is indeed sad. I really liked his "Consider our Vow", a translation of tiruppAvai and tiruvempAvai esp. the introductory essay in this book on the...
Thanks for the reply,I was looking for the meaning which indicates the male member of the Pallar community. Is there any relation between the word "Pallu" a...
... This is sad news, indeed. I am having here the memorial volume which Norman Cutler and Paula Richman edited in honor of the late professor K. Paramasivam...
Dear Friends, For a long time I wanted to render into English and bring out the metaphysical depths of Punivati, more popularly known as Karaikkal Peyar, the...
... I do have this, prof. Paula Richman sent me this as a gift. Think when I informed about a rare piLLaittamiz on TirumakaL-Lakshmi. In the Vaishnavaite...
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/02/020302.normancutler.html From the Chicago Tribune NORMAN CUTLER, 52 U. of C. scholar; Tamil pioneer By James Janega ...
... the male ... classification in ... Dear Sir, The paLLu pirapantams are written with PaLLar as main characters, much like KuRavar are the main characters in...
Thanks to KaviJar MaturapArati, came to know of a nice site to know about Tamil publishers' catalogs from Chennai. Most publishers are listed here. It's ...
Some useful replies I got. -ng ... wrote: Yes. The word "bEjAr" appears to be of south Indian origin as it is more common in Hyderabadi Urdu and south Indian...
Ganesan, Thank you for the information,but i am confused by the statement there are no pallar community in TN,I belevie there is large population Pallars in...
... wrote: Yes. The word "bEjAr" appears to be of south Indian origin as it is more common in Hyderabadi Urdu and south Indian languages than in North Indian...
... the male ... classification in ... Dear Sir, PaLLu pirapantams are written on the PaLLar community. My take from JLC's mail is that Pallar and PaLLar mean ...
... Yes, this is not a borrowal in Tamil at all. Not only tiruvAcakam, examples from Kampan and ApirAmi PaTTar as well were given. vicai/vecai = force,...
Dear list members, looking for entries conteaining kiLavi "word, utterance, etc." and kiLa-ttal "to express clearly, etc." inside the DED and the DEDR, I could...
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