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• 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 Poems of Ancient Tamils,
  Univ.of California Press, Berkeley,1975, ISBN: 0520026721
  
  
• 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.
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• 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.
  
  

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