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--- In CTamil@y..., naga_ganesan@h... wrote:
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. Subrahmanya Sastri, EzuttatikAram, with Eng. paraphrase
(JORM, 1930), CollatikAram, With an English commentary (1-3,
JORM, 1937); as book, Annamalai Univ., 1945), PoruL AtikAram
- Tamil Poetics (1945, 1952, 1956, Kuppuswami Sastri Research
Inst.);
S. Ilakkuvanar (PSS' student), Tholkappiyam (in English)
with Critical studies, Madurai, 1963
(S.I's son, Ci. I. Maraimalai (prof., dept. of Tamil,
Presidency College, Madras) reprinted it 3-4 years ago.
I'll send prof. Maraimalai's email in private).
P. S. Vedachala Iyer, The sources of Tolkappiyam,
JORM, VII (1933) 53-58.
T. P. Meenakshisundaran, Theory of Poetry in Tolkappiyar,
Tamil Culture I (1952) 2.104=113.
A. Sankaranarayanan, The Concept and Structure of Poetry
in Tolkappiyam, M. Litt. thesis, Univ. Madras, 1962
T. P. Meenakshisundaran, Tolkappiyar's Literary theory,
Tamil Culture XII (1966) 2/3, 117-125.
S. Subramanian, A critical study of Tolkappiyam
(Eluttu and Col) and NannUl - With Linguistic Perspective
(2 vols.), Ph.D. diss., UMadras, 1967
X. S. Thaninayagam, Tolkappiyam - the Earliest Record,
JTS, 1 (Sept. 1972) 61-70
V. Sp. Manickam, An introduction to the study of Tolkappiyam,
JTS, 1 (Sept. 1972) 39-42
A. S. Gnanasambandan, Tolkappiyar's Concept of Uvamai,
JTS, 4 (Dec. 1973) 1-12
Hartmut Scharfe, Tolkappiyam studies, in
German scholars in India, vol. I (1973) 268-278
S. N. Kandaswamy, The Age of TolkAppiyam
JTS 20 (Dec. 1981) 37-71
D. Albert (trans.), TolkAppiyam - Phonology and
Morphology (An English translation),
Intern. Inst. Tamil Studies, Madras, 1985
E. S. Varadaraja Iyer, TolkAppiyam - Porulatikaram,
Vol. I & II (1948) Annamalai Univ.
R. Vasudeva Sarma, Tol-Kappiyam, Porulatikaram
Teppakulam (Trichinopoly) 1933.
S. Agesthialingom, N. Kumaraswami Raja, eds.
Studies in early Dravidian grammars: Proc. of the
Seminar, Annamalai U., 1978, 356 p.
T. Nataraja Sarma, The simile in Tamil - a comparative
study of Tolkappiyam uvamai iyal and Thandiyalankaram
uvamai aNi. Nagercoil: Jayakumari Stores, 1971
T. Natarajan, The language of Sangam literature and
Tolkappiyam, Madurai: Madurai Pub. House, 1977
329 p.
S. Subrahmanyan, A critical study of Tolkappiyam
(ezuttu and col.) and NannUl. Nagercoil: Doss
Book Centre, 1977-, pt.1, v. 1, Phonology, 176 p.
K. Vellaivaranan, A history of Tamil literature:
Tolkappiyam. Annamalai U., 1957, 320 p.
(Had the honor of meeting Saiva-tiru. VeLLaivAraNanAr,
I suspect this may be in Tamil).
K. Zvelebil et al.,
a) Intro. to the historical grammar of the
Tamil language, Part I - Prelim. textual analysis
USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka Pub. house, 1967
b) Intro. to the hist. gr. of the Tamil language,
Pub. house of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Prague 1970
Takanobu Takahashi, Poetry and Poetics - Literary
Conventions of Tamil Love Poetry, Ph.D. diss.,
Univ. of Utrecht, 1989
[Published as Tamil love poetry and poetics
Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1995.
xii, 255 p.]
V. S. Rajam, A comparative study of two ancient grammatical
traditions: The Tamil Tolkaappiyam Compared with the Sanskrit
Rk-Pratisakhya, Taittiriya-Pratisakhya, Apisali Siksa and
Astadhyayi, PhD doss., U. Penn., 1981
V. S. Rajam, A reference grammar of classical Tamil poetry,
American Philosophical Society, 1992. 1081 p.
[Dr. Rajam's email: rajam @ best.com Now in a Silicon
valley co. Basic degree in Math.]
>Dr K Meenakshi in her "TOLKAPPIYAM AND ASTADHYAYI"
>(1997) mentions at p.473:
> Zvelebil Kamil: TolkaAppiyam English translation,
>Journal of Tamil Studies, Vol.2-8,13,20-21. From 1972.
The bibliographic details of the partial
Zvelebil translation of tolkAppiyam are:
TolkAppiyam; CiRappuppAyiram; EzuttatikAram,
JTS 1 (Sept. 1972) 43-60, 2 (Dec. 1972) 13-29,
3 (Sept. 1973) 17-27, 4 (Dec. 1973) 13-23,
5 (Sept. 1974) 34-36, 7 (June, 1975) 62-66,
8 (Dec. 1975) 8-11. CollatikAram, JTS 13
(June 1978) 79-86, 20 (Dec. 1981) 5-14,
21 (June 1982) 9-19, 28 (Dec. 1985) 67-80
(unfinished, last nURpA trans. Col. 117).
Tol. Col. contains 453-463 aphorisms (depening on
various arrangements) in 9 chapters.
> May I get the full postal address including email
>address, if any, of the South India Saiva Siddhanta
>Works?
A pioneer publishing house in Tamil, and a leader in
spreading the "tan2ittamiz" movement. Their journal,
centamiz-c-celvi contains learned articles over the years
(some others: centamiz of Madurai Tamil Sangam started
by Pandithurai Thevar and Baskara Sethupathi of Ramnad
Samasthanam, and tamiz-p-pozil of Karandai Tamil Sangam).
SISS was ably run for decades by the late Tiru. va.
cuppaiyApiLLai, his two daughters were given in marriage
to MuttukkumAracAmi and KaliyANacuntaram. Now both of
them too are no more.Their children have moved to USA.
Will check with Mrs. Valli who's married US Airforce
surgeon.
ten2n2intiya caivacittAnta kazakam (SISS society)
library and photo collections is fabulous. Many tamil books
(eg., 19th century printed works) are just one of a kind
in the whole world. One time, Roja Muttaiah Library (Madras)
and U. Chicago were launching an effort to catalog them
and microfiche them. Surely, James Nye
(jnye @ midway.uchicago.edu) would know.
Regards,
N. Ganesan
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