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>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:08:25 +0700
>To: SiSrivas@...
>From: jaybee
>Subject: More on Clock-wise Tamil characters
>
>
>Dear Sri,
>
> Re:Your following mail
>
>From: SiSrivas@...
>Message-ID: <638ddd02.2520987f@...>
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 05:53:03 EDT
>Subject: Re: [tamil] Clock-wise Tamil characters (info needed)
>To: jaybee@...
>
>Dear Jayabarathy,
>
>Thank you for the valuable information you provided.
>I'm also searching for information on the necessity for continuing to write
>in clockwise fashion. Has any one did a study on this subject?
>
>nantry
>Sinnathurai Srivas
>
> I would'nt know if anybody has done any study on
> the clock-wise writing pattern. There is one book that
> was written long ago, published by the Saiva Siddhanta
> Kalzhagam. It was originally written in English. But
> a Tamil translation was later made. It is on the mystical
> aspect of the shape of the Tamil letters. It deals with
> the present nedunggaNakku letters.
> But there is something more that I would like to
> write on the clockwise pattern of writing. It may make
> a lot of relevence and I hope it will be of use to you.
> May be Dr.Ganesan would like to give some input
> on this first?
>
> Regards
>
> Jayabarathi
>
>
>
>
>
><< Dear SiSrivas,
>
> At 08:39 PM 9/26/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >
> >All Tamil characters are written in clockwise fashion. This for me is a
>hear
> >say, though from very reliable persons. I looked at all the characters and
>it
> >lokks as though it is correct. However the iTaddai combu could be written
>in
> >both direction.
> >
>
> Generally, it is so.
> The exceptions are pa, ta, ma, and ya.
> The following are a combination of the clockwise
> and anti-clockwise movements - ai,nga, lzha, ma, and va.
> There is actually no rule about this.
> The most plausible reason would be the method of writing
> with the stylus on the Edu. The palmyra Edu is held in the
> left hand, and scribbling the letters is done by the right
> hand on to the Edu.
> We also write from the top left and follow rightwards
> and downwards.
> It is the Edu which is moved along between the fingers of the
> left hand. Something like the drum of the type-writer where
> the paper is moved along with the drum. But the types fall in
> the same place.
> And not the right hand that moves along as we do now on paper,
> which is held stationary.
> The letters are written in a rotatary movement.
> Please see if you can get a copy of the vattelzhuththu
> characters.
> That will give an idea.
>
> Regards
>
> Jayabarathi
>
> >Does any one know of this rule and is it written in any procedural books?
> >
> >nantry
> >Sinnathurai Srivas
> >
>
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