Revisiting Tamil manuscripts

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsA twin lecture focusing on Tamil manuscripts, jointly organised by the Roja Muthiah Research Library and INTACH, Tamil Nadu chapter, was held here on Saturday.In her presentation, Eva Maria Wilden, member of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient, a Pondicherry-based research institute spoke on the topic ‘Veru oru tani bashai: Deciphering, copying and printing Sangam texts from manuscripts’. Wilden, who is engaged with the project to collect, digitise and re-edit classic Tamil manuscripts, recounted trials involved with deciphering the surviving manuscripts of the Sangam corpus.Earlier, Jean-Luc Chevillard, a Tamil linguist delivered a lecture on the topic ‘A preliminary survey of the musical and metrical colophons in the Nalayira Tivya Prapantam Palm - leaf Manuscripts from the EFEO collection’.“If we take the broad perspective that establishing the transmissional history of ancient Tamil texts as the most important task facing Tamil philology, we should strive to have as complete a view as possible of the successive stages,” he said.The modern presentation of Tamil metre, as applied in devotional literature, seems to have been made explicitly for the first time in 1885, by Virabradra Mudaliar in Viruttappaviyal, he added.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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A twin lecture focusing on Tamil manuscripts, jointly organised by the Roja Muthiah Research Library and INTACH, Tamil Nadu chapter, was held here on Saturday.

In her presentation, Eva Maria Wilden, member of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient, a Pondicherry-based research institute spoke on the topic ‘Veru oru tani bashai: Deciphering, copying and printing Sangam texts from manuscripts’. Wilden, who is engaged with the project to collect, digitise and re-edit classic Tamil manuscripts, recounted trials involved with deciphering the surviving manuscripts of the Sangam corpus.

Earlier, Jean-Luc Chevillard, a Tamil linguist delivered a lecture on the topic ‘A preliminary survey of the musical and metrical colophons in the Nalayira Tivya Prapantam Palm - leaf Manuscripts from the EFEO collection’.

“If we take the broad perspective that establishing the transmissional history of ancient Tamil texts as the most important task facing Tamil philology, we should strive to have as complete a view as possible of the successive stages,” he said.

The modern presentation of Tamil metre, as applied in devotional literature, seems to have been made explicitly for the first time in 1885, by Virabradra Mudaliar in Viruttappaviyal, he added.