Webpages of Tamil Electronic Library (C)K. Kalyanasundaram
English Commentaries, Translations of Tamil Literary Works and on Tamil Religion
Alalasundaram. P
Literary beauties in the hymns of Nayanmars, Alwars, and other saints
[Madras] University of Madras, 1970.
Series title: Dr. R.P. Sethu Pillai Silver Jubilee Commemoration Endowment lectures ; 1968-69.
Appuswami, P. N
Tamil verse in translation: Sangam age (Tamilp patalkalum avarrin Ankila moli peyarppum)
Chennai: Intl. Inst. of Tamil Studies, Madras, 1987 (IITS publ. 131)
Arunachalam, M
Women Saints of Tamil Nadu, Bombay, 1970
Balasubramanian, C., 1935-
Papers in Tamil literature
Madras: Narumalarp Pathippakam: Sellers, Paari Nilaiyam, 1981
Beck, Brenda E.F.
The three twins : the telling of a South Indian folk epic
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1982.
Bugge, Henriette
Mission and Tamil society: social and religious change in South India (1840-1900)
Richmond: Curzon, 1994
Series title: Monograph series/ Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; no. 65
Casie Chitty, Simon, 1807-1860.
The Tamil Plutarch : a summary account of the lives of the poets and poetesses of southern India and Ceylon
from the earliest to the present times, with select specimens of their compositions
New Delhi : Asian Educational Services, 1982.
Chakravarti, A. (Appaswami), 1880-1960.
Jaina literature in Tamil
with an introd., footnotes, appendix, and index by K. V. Ramesh.
New Delhi : Bharatiya Jnanapitha Publication, 1974. 1st ed.
Chellaiah, J.V
Pattupattu: ten Tamil idylls, translated into English verse
Colombo, General Publishers [1947?];
[2d ed.]. Tirunelveli, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, 1962.
Thanjavur: Tamil University, 1985
Civattampi, Karttikecu (Karthigesu Sivathamby)
Drama in ancient Tamil society
Madras: New Century, 1981
Civattampi, Karttikecu (Karthigesu Sivathamby)
Literary history in Tamil: a historiographical analysis
Thanjavur, India: Tamil University, 1986
Clooney, Francis X.
Seeing Through Texts : Doing Theology Among the Srivaisnavas of South India (SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions)
State Univ. of New York Press, ISBN: 0791429954
Clooney, Francis Xavier,S.J., 1950-
The art and theology of Srivaisnava thinkers : the De Nobili endowment lectures
Madras : T.R. Publications for Satya Nilayam Publications, 1994.
Series title: Satya Nilayam endowment lectures series.
Clothey, Fred, W.
Quiescence and Passion : The Vision of Arunakiri, Tamil Mystic ; Translations With Introduction and Notes
Austin & Winfield Pub, Aug. 1996, ISBN: 1572920009
Cutler, Norman
Consider our vow : translation of Tiruppavai and Tiruvempavai into English, 1st ed.
Madurai : Muttu Patippakam, 1979.
Cutler, Norman
The Poetry of Tamil Saints, Ph.D Thesis,
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago,1980
Cutler, Norman
Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil Devotion,
Religion in Asia and Africa series, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, May 1987,
Series title: Religion in Asia and Africa series., ISBN: 0253353343
Cutler, Norman
A Gift of Tamil : Translations of Tamil Literature (edited with Paula Richman)
South Asia Books, 1992, ISBN: 8185425817
Peter Dale, Kokilam Subbiah.
The Seasons of Cankam : love poems translated from the Tamil
London : Agenda Editions, 1975, c1974.
Dayanandan Francis, T.
Christian poets and Tamil culture
[Madras] : Dr. S. Radhakrishan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, 1978.
Dehejia, Vidya
Slaves of the Lord : The Path of the Tamil Saints
South Asia Books, Dec. 1988, ISBN: 8121500443
Dhavamony, Mariasusai
Love of God according to Saiva Siddhantha: A study in the Mysticism and Theology of Saivism
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971
Danielou, Alain
Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) by Prince Ilanko Atikal,
New Directions, New York, 1965
Danielou, Alain
Shiva and Dionysus: The religion of nature and eros,
Inner Traditions International, New York, 1984
M.A. Dorai Rangaswamy.
The religion and philosophy of Tevaram : with special reference to Nampi Arurar (Sundarar)
2nd ed. Madras : University of Madras, 1990.
Frasca, Richard Armando
Theatre of the Mahabharata : Terukkuttu Performances in South India
Univ. of Hawaii Press, Aug, 1990, ISBN: 0824812905
Goover, Charles E.
The Folk Songs of Tamilnadu,
Higginbottoms, Madras, 1871
Hardy, Friedhelm
Viraha Bhakti: The early history of Krisna Devotion in South India,
Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi, 1983
Hart, George L.
The relation between Tamil and classical Sanskrit Literature,
Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1976
Hart, George L. III.
Poets of the Tamil anthologies : ancient poems of love and war (translation)
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1979.
Series title: Princeton library of Asian translations.
Hart, George L.
The Forest Book of the Ramayana by Kampan (with H. Heifetz),
Univ. of California Press, 1988
Hirudayam, I
Christianity and Tamil Culture
Univ. of Madras (Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Inst. for Adv. Study in Philosophy), Madras, 1977
Hoole, Charles R. A.
Modern Sannyasins: Protestant missionary contribution to Ceylon Tamil culture
Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, c1995
Series title: Studies in the intercultural history of Christianity; Bd. 94)
Hooper, J.S.M.
Hymns of Alwars, Calcutta, 1929
Iracamaanickanaar, Ma
The development of Saivism in South India, A.D 300 -1300
Dharmapuram Adhinam Publication 554, Dharmapuram
Jagadeesan, N
Collected Papers on Tamil Vaishnavism
Ennes Publications, Madurai, 1989
Jagadeesan, N
History of Sri Vaishnavism in the Tamil country: post-Ramanuja
Koodal Publishers, Madurai, 1977
Jesudasan, C and H
Peaks of Sangam Poetry,
Trivandrum, 1960
Jeyachandrun, A.V
The Madurai Temple Complex: with special reference to literature and legends
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1985
John Louis, A
Petals of beauty : random selections from Bharati's poems, rendered into English, 1st ed.
Madras : Manivachagar Pathipagam, 1994.
John Samuel, G (1948 - )
Studies in Tamil poetry, 1st ed.
Madras : Mani Pathippakam, 1978.
Jotimuttu. P
Ainku_runu_ru, the short five hundred : poems on the theme of love in
Tamil literature :
an anthology / translation with introduction and notes
Madras : Christian Literature Society, 1984.
Kandaiah, A
A critical study of Early Tamil Saiva Bhakti Literature, with special reference to Tevaram
Ph.D Thesis, Univ. of London, 1973
Kailasapathy, K
Tamil Heroic Poetry. Oxford Univ. Press, 1968, 282 p.
Kasirajan, R (1946- )
Evolution and evaluation of epics in Tamil, 1st ed.
Madurai : Mathy Pathippakam, 1990.
Kersenboom, Saskia.
Word, sound, image : the life of the Tamil text
Herndon, VA : Berg Publishers, 1995.
Kulandaiswamy, V.C.
The Immortal Kural (Sahitya Akademl Award Winning Tamil Literary Critique)
South Asia Books, 1994, ISBN: 8172015895
Lakshmi, C.S.
Face Behind the Mask : Women in Tamil Literature
New Delhi: Vikas;; Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division, July 1984, ISBN: 0706924541
Leelavathy, Thirunavukarasu
A critical study of Ku_runtokai : an advanced study, 1st ed.
Madurai : Publications Division, Madurai Kamaraj University, [1992].
Manickam, V.Sp.
The Tamil Concept of Love,
Madras, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, 1962.
Manickam, V. T. (Vellayappa Thenappa), 1933-
Marutam, an aspect of love in Tamil literature
Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India : Tema Publishers, 1982.
Ma_raimalaiyatikal, 1876-1950 (Swami Vedachalam)
Ancient and modern Tamil poets, [1st ed.].
Madras, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, Tinnevelly, 1971.
Mariaselvam, Abraham, 1936-
The Song of Songs and ancient Tamil love poems : poetry and symbolism
Roma : Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1988.
Series title: Analecta Biblica ; 118.
Marr, John Ralston
The Eight Anthologies, Inst. of Asian Studies, Thiruvanmayur, Madras, 1985
Meenakshisundaram T.P.
Mullaippattu: The Idylls of Jasmine
Madras, Orient Longmans, 1958
Nagaswamy, R
Siva Bhakti
Navrang Publishers, New Delhi/South Asia Books, 1989, ISBN: 817013028X
Nagaswami, R.
Art and culture of Tamil Nadu
Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1980
Nagarajan, K.S.
Jain contribution to Tamil Culture
Dhanraj Baid Jain College, Madras, 1977
Nannithamby, Loganayagy
Women in modern Tamil literature (1880-1960)
Kuala Lumpur: Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya, 1969
Narayanan, Vasuda
The Tamil Veda: Pillan's Interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli, (with John Carmen)
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989, ISBN: 0226093050.
The vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation & Ritual, 1994.
Narayana Rao, Velcheru; David Shulman, David and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay Symbols of Substance : Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu
Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 1993, ISBN: 0195630211
Natarajan, T
The Language of the Sangam Literature and Tolkappiyam
Madurai: Madurai Publ. House, 1977
Pande, Susmita
Birth of bhakti in Indian religions and art
New Delhi: Books & Books, 1982
Pandit, Moti Lal
Saivism: a religio-philosophical history
Theological research and communication Inst., New Delhi,1987
Parthasarathy, J (translation/english rendering)
The divine pilgrimage : the story of Perumal cuvaml : a folk-ballad from
palm-leaf manuscripts, 1st ed.
Madras, India : Institute of Asian Studies, 1992.
Series title: Folklore of Tamilnadu series ; no. 5.,
general editors, Shu Hikosaka, G. John Samuel ; editor, M. Shanmukham Pillai
Parthasarathy, R.
The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India- The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal, (Translations from the Asian Classics), Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1993, ISBN: 023107848X
Periakaruppan, Rm.
Traditions and Talents in cankam poetry, 1st ed.
Madurai : Madurai Pub. House, 1976.
Perumal, A. N.
Tamil drama: origin and development
Madras: International Inst. of Tamil Studies, 1982
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints, (Princeton Library of Asian Translations),
Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989, ISBN: 0691067678
Pope, G.U.
Sacred Utterances (The tiruvaacagam) of Maanikkavaacagar,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1900 (repr: Univ. of Madras, 1959?)
Pope, G.U
A tamil poetical anthology
Naladiyar (The) or Four Hundred Quartrains in Tamil, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893
Pope, G.U
Tamil heroic poems, 1st ed.
Madras : South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, Tinnevelly, 1973.
Purnalingam Pillai, M. S., b. 1866.
Tamil literature
Thanjavur : Tamil University, 1985.
Radhakrsnasarma, Calla, 1929-
The Ramayana in Telugu and Tamil : a comparative study
Madras : Lakshminarayana Granthamala : distributors, India Book Exports, 1973
Raghavan, V
The Ramayana Traditions in Asia (ed.), Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi, 1980
Raghava Aiyangar, M., 1878-1960.
Some aspects of Kerala and Tamil literature
translated into English by J. Parthasarathi.
Trivandrum : Dept. of Publications, University of Kerala, 1948-1950], 1973 printing.
Raghunathan, N
Six long poems from Sangam Tamil , translated into English verse
Madras : Vighneswara Pub. House, 1978.
Ratnaswami, Subramaniam
A short history of the ancient Tamils and their literature
Annamalainagar: Thaiyalnayaki Velideeyu, 1979
Raja, Krishnamurthy (1952 - )
The burning urn : [studies in Tamil poetry]
Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India : Parthibban Pathippagam, 1994.
Rajam, V.S.
A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry (150 B.C.--Pre-Fifth/Sixth Century A.D.),
American Philosophical Society, July 1992, ISBN: 087169199X
Rajagopalachari, C
Auvaiyar: A great Tamil Poetess, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1971
Ramayana (Translation), Greenleaf books, Nov. 1980, ISBN: 0934676178
Ramachandra Dikshatar, V.R.
Silappadikaaram or The Lady of the Anklets,
Oxford Univ. Press, Madras, 1939 (repr: Kazhagam, Madras, 1978)
Dikshitar, V. R. Ramachandra.
Studies in Tamil literature and history
Madras: University of Madras, 1936, 2nd ed, reprinted
Ramanujam, A.K.
Poems of Love and War, From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Songs of Classical Tamil, Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1985, ISBN: 0231051077
Ramanujam, A.K.
The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology,
Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, 1967, ISBN: 0195635019
Ramanujam, A.K
Fifteen poems from a classical Tamil anthology
Calcutta, Writers Workshop [1965].
Ramanujam, A.K.
Hymns for the Drowning- Poems of Nammalwar,
Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1981
Ramaswami Ayyangar, M.S; B. Seshagiri Rao
Studies in South Indian Jainism
Sri Satguru, New Delhi, 1982 (Sri Garib Das Oriental series no.4-5)
Raghavan, T.S
Nine Tales from Tamil Classics
Madras, Tamilnadu saiva Siddhantha publ. society, 1959
Sarangapani, R
A critical study of Paripatal, 1st ed.
Madurai : Publications Division, Madurai Kamaraj University, 1984.
Series title: Publications (Madurai Kamaraj University) ; no. 77.
M. Shanmugam Pillai and David E. Ludden (translation)
Ku_runtokai : an anthology of classical Tamil love poetry, 1st ed.
Madurai : Koodal Publishers, 1976.
Somasundaram Pillai, J.M
Five Tamil Idylls of Pattupattu
Madras, 1947
Folk beliefs of the Tamils
M. Shanmugam Pillai and Erica A.E. Claus: translated and edited by,
A translation from Tamil of a part of a collection of folk beliefs found in S. Carlos's Nattupura nampikaikal, Kannada Sangha, Christ College, Bangalore, 1976
Madurai: Muttu Patippakam, 1981
Shulman, D.D.
Songs of the Harsh Devotee- The Tevaram of Cuntaramurthinayanar,
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990
Shulman, D.D.
Tamil Temples and Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marraige in the South Indian Saiva Tradition, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980
Siddalingaiah, T.B
Origin and Development of saiva siddhantha upto 14th Century
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1979
Siddhanthashastree, Rabindra Kumar
Saivism through the ages
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1974
Srinivasa Iyengar, K.S
Asian Versions of Ramayana, Sahita Akademy, New Delhi, 1983
Subbiah, Ganapathy
Roots of Tamil Religious Thought, Pondicherry Inst. of Linguistics and Culture, Pondicherry, 1991
Subramaniam, A.V
Sips from the Sangam Cup
Tirunelveli/Madras, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, 1968
A. V. Subramanian
The squirrel in the courtyard: transcompositions from Tamil Sangam lyrics
Madras: Tamilnadu Textbook Soc., 1980
Subramanian, P.R
Annotated index to Centamil : the journal of the Madurai Tamil Sangam :
Wiesbaden : Steiner, 1980
Subramanyam, K.N.
The Anklet Story: Silappadhikaram of Ilanko Atikal, Agam Prakashan, New Delhi, 1977
Philosophical heritage of the Tamils
S.V.Subramanian, R. Vijayalakshmy (editors)
Madras: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1983
N. Subrahmanian
Tamilian historiography
Madurai: Ennes Publications, 1988
The Kural, tr. from the Tamil by P.S. Sundaram Madras: P.S. Sundaram, 1987 154p
Tirukkural: lights of the righteous life: an English verse rendering from the Tamil by K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Calcutta: M.P. Birla Foundation 1988 145p
Sundaram P.S
The Kural, Tiruvalluvar, translated from the Tamil with an introduction
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991
Sundaram Pillay, P., 1855-1897
Some mile-stones in the history of Tamil literature
Madras : Pioneer Book Services, 1985.
Sundaramoorthy, G
Early Literary Theories in Tamil, Madras, 1974
K. Swaminathan, Periaswami Thooran, M.R. Perumal Mudaliar (editors)
The plough and the stars: stories from Tamilnad
London: Asia Pub. House, c1963
Takahashi, Takanobu
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics
(Brill's Indological Library, Vol 9), E.J. Brill, Feb. 1995, ISBN: 9004100423
Radha Thiagarajan
A study of mysticism in thiruvachakam
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1983
Raghavan. V.K.S.N.
A brief study on the Tiruppallandu of Sri Periyalvar, the Tiruppalliyeluchi of Sri Tondaradippodiyalvar, and the Kanninunsiruttambu
of Sri Madhurakaviyalvar
Madras : Sri Visishtadvaita Pracharini Sabha, [1983].
Sampath Thathachariar, S. R.
Three notes on the verses of the Azhwars
Tiruchy : Sampath Thathachariar, [19]73.
Sampath Thathachariar, S. R.
Four more notes on the verses of the Azhwars
Srirangam, Tiruchy, Tamil Nadu : Sampath Thathachariar, 1977.
Sundaram, P. K., 1926-
Some philosophical concepts in Purananuru
Madras : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy,
University of Madras, 1979.
Series title: Madras University philosophical series ; no. 26.
Thani Nayagam, Xavier S.
Landscape and poetry: a study of nature in classical Tamil poetry. 2nd ed.
London/New York, Asia Publishing House, 1966.
Trawick, Margaret
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
Univ California Press, Berkeley, USA, August 1990, ISBN: 0520066367
Vasudeva Rao, T.N
Buddhism in the Tamil Country
Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, 1979
Vacek, J. (Jaroslav), Subramanian, S.V
A Tamil reader: introducing Sangam Literature
Chennai: Intl. Inst. of Tamil Studies, Madras, 1989 (IITS publ.143)
Varadarajan, M., 1912-1974
The treatment of nature in Sangam literature (ancient Tamil literature)
Madras, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Pub. Society, Tinnevelly, 1969., 2nd ed.
Susan S. Wadley ,edited, contributors, Sheryl B. Daniel ... [et al.].
The Powers of Tamil women
Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1980.
White, Emmons E.
The wisdom of the Tamil people, as illustrated by translated selections from their ancient literature
New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1975. br>
Yocum, G.E.
Hymns to the Dancing Siva: A study of Manickkavasagar's "thiruvAchagam", New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1982
Zvelebil, Kamil V.
The Smile of Murugan, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1973
Zvelebil, Kamil V.
The Poets of Powers, London: Rider and Company, 1973
Zvelebil, Kamil V.
Classical Tamil Prosody:An introduction, New Era Publishers, Madras, 1989
Zvelebil, Kamil V.
Two Tamil Folktales : The Story of King Matanakama, the Story of Peacock Ravana
Motilal Banarsidas, Dec. 1987, ISBN: 8120802128
Zvelebil, Kamil V.
Literary conventions in Akam poetry
1st ed., Madras : Institute of Asian Studies, 1986.
BOOKS IN FRENCH
Danielou, Alain
Prince Ilanko Atikal: le roman de l'anneau (with R.S. Desikan)
Gallimard, Paris, 1961
Francois Gros
Le Paripatal, texte tamoul. Introd., traduction et notes
Pondichery, Institut francais d'indologie, 1968.
Series title: Publications de l'Institut francais d'indologie ; no 35.
M. Sangeelee.
Bouquet de sagesse / textes tamouls choisis et traduits en francais,
Moka, Ile Maurice : Institut Mahatma Gandhi, c1988.