Author
Tolkappiyar
Also recorded as Tholkappiyar · Tolkappiyan · Tolkāppiyar
Tolkappiyar
- Born
- 400
- Occupation
- poet · grammarian · writer · linguist
- Fields
- Tamil grammar
- Known for
- Tolkāppiyam
- Languages
- Tamil
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The recorded working language is Tamil. The field of work recorded is Tamil grammar. Works named in the authority record are Tolkāppiyam.
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- 1.International Institute of Tamil Studies. Journal of Tamil Studies, Volume 1. 131. 1969.
- 2.Nadarajah, Devapoopathy. Love in Sanskrit and Tamil Literature: A Study of Characters and Nature, 200 B.C.-A.D. 500. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. 1994. 978-81-208-1215-4.
- 3.Mahadevan, I. Early Tamil Epigraphy - From the Earliest Times to the Sixth century C.E., 2nd Edition. 271. 2014.
- 4.S. Agesthialingam, A grammar of Old Tamil (with special reference to Patirruppattu), Annamalai University, (1979), pXIV
- 5.Thomas Lehmann. The Dravidian Languages. Routledge. 75–76. 2015. 978-1-136-91164-4.
- 6.Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg. Tamil Language for Europeans: Ziegenbalg's Grammatica Damulica. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. 1–2. 2010. 978-3-447-06236-7.
- 7.Rodopi. Subjectivity. 321–322. 1999. 90-420-0728-1.
- 8.The Date of the Tolkappiyam: A Retrospect." Annals of Oriental Research (Madras), Silver Jubilee Volume: 292–317
- 9.Ramaswamy, Vijaya. Women and Farm Work in Tamil Folk Songs. Social Scientist. 21. 9/11. 113–129. 1993. 10.2307/3520429.
- 10.Sesha Iyengar, T.R. (1925), Dravidian India, Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, reprinted 1995, pp 155–157
- 11.Gift Siromoney (1983), Origin of the Tamil-Brahmi script, Seminar on "Origin evolution and reform of the Tamil script", pp. 21–29, The Institute of Traditional Cultures, University Buildings, Madras-600005
- 12.Rajam, V. S. 1992. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C.–pre-Fifth/Sixth Century A.D. Memoirs of the American philosophical society, vol. 199. Philadelphia, Pa: American Philosophical Society, p. 7
- 13.Vaiyapuri Pillai, S. 1956. History of Tamil language and literature; beginning to 1000 A.D.. Madras: New Century Book House.
- 14.Kamil Zvelebil, 1973, pp=138–147 with footnotes
- 15.Takahashi, Takanobu. Tamil Love Poetry & Poetics. Brill. 18. 1995. 90-04-10042-3.
- 16.Burnell, Arthur Coke. On the Aindra school of Sanskrit Grammarians: their place in the Sanskrit and subordinate literatures. Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository. 8-20. 1875.
- 17.Burnell, A. C. On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians: Their place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures. Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository. 8–9. 1975.
- 18.Tieken, Herman Joseph Hugo. 2001. Kāvya in South India: old Tamil Caṅkam poetry. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.
- 19.George Hart III. "Review of Tieken's Kavya in South India." Journal of the American Oriental Institute 124:1. pp. 180–184. 2004.
- 20.G.E. Ferro-Luzzi. "Tieken, Herman, Kavya in South India (Book review). Asian Folklore Studies. June 2001. pp. 373–374
- 21.Anne E. Monius, Book review, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 2002), pp. 1404–1406
- 22.book titled "Tholkappiyar Kaalam", Madhivanan
- 23.Zvelebil, Kamil. 1973. The smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India. Leiden: Brill.
- 24.Thomas Lehmann. The Dravidian Languages. Routledge. 76–78. 2015. 978-1-136-91164-4.
- 25.Peter Scharf. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 253–254. 2013. 978-0-19-164343-9.
- 26.Karthik Madhavan. Tolkappiyam is not dependent on Sanskrit sources: Tamil scholar. The Hindu. 27 June 2010.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 15
- Albert. 1985. Tolkāppiyam phonology and morphology : an English translation. Madras : International Institute of Tamil Studies.
- Burnell, Arthur Coke (1875). On the Aindra school of Sanskrit Grammarians: their place in the Sanskrit and subordinate literatures. Mangalore: Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository, 8-20.
- Hart, George L. 1975. The poems of ancient Tamil, their milieu and their Sanskrit counterparts. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Institute of Asian Studies. Tolkāppiyam in English: translation, with the Tamil text, transliteration in the roman script, introduction, glossary, and illustrations. 2001. 978-81-87892-05-2.
- Ray, Himanshu Prabha. The archaeology of seafaring in ancient South Asia. Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. 2003. 9780521011099.
- Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute. Tolkāppiyam: Poruḷatikāram. 1999. 978-81-85170-27-5.
- Hartmut Scharfe. Grammatical Literature. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. 1977. 978-3-447-01706-0.
- Selby, Martha Ann (2011) Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Early Third-Century Anthology. Columbia University Press,
- David Shulman. Tamil: A Biography. Harvard University Press. 2016. 978-0-674-97465-4.
- Takanobu Takahashi. Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics. BRILL Academic. 1995. 90-04-10042-3.
- Eva Maria Wilden. Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu. Walter de Gruyter. 2014. 978-3-11-035276-4.
- Kamil Zvelebil. The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India. BRILL. 1973. 90-04-03591-5.
- Kamil Zvelebil. A History of Indian literature Vol.10 (Tamil Literature). Otto Harrasowitz. 1974. 3-447-01582-9.
- Kamil Zvelebil. Comments on the Tolkappiyam Theory of Literature. Archiv Orientální. 59. 345–359. 1991.
- Kamil Zvelebil. Companion studies to the history of Tamil literature. BRILL. 73. 1992. 90-04-09365-6.
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