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Tamilex monthly seminar: Suganya AnandakicheninR113, Alsterterrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg
6 August 2024
Photo: Suganya Anandakichenin
A first look at the Manipravalam dictionary index cards
Suganya Anandakichenin
A couple of decades ago, the late and lamented Pandit Varadadesikan (EFEO, Pondicherry) worked with a few colleagues towards producing a Manipravalam dictionary. The project apparently got shelved when Shanti Sadana’s Glossary of Historical Tamil Vaishnava Prose (upto 1800 AD). Vaiṇava urainaṭai: Varalāṟṟu mur̲ait Tamiḻ ilakkiya pērakarāti (2001) was published. The index cards were misplaced, presumed lost for two decades, until one day in April 2024, when they were discovered at the IFP and brought back to the EFEO. During this talk, we will have a first glance at these index cards and witness the kind of meticulous work that has gone into preparing them.
Suganya Anandakichenin (affiliated with the Universität Hamburg) mainly works in the fields of Vaiṣṇava literature and theology in Tamil and Manipravalam. She is the author of My Sapphire-hued Lord, My Beloved. A Complete, Annotated Translation of Kulacēkara Āḻvār’s Perumāḷ Tirumoḻi and Periyavāccāṉ Piḷḷai’s Medieval Maṇipravāḷam Commentary, with an Introduction (IFP/EFEO, 2018) and For my Blemishless Lord: A Study of Three Śrīvaiṣṇava Medieval Commentaries on Tiruppāṇ Āḻvār’s Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ (De Gruyter, 2024). She was recently awarded a grant from the Endangered Archives Project of the British Library to preserve and photograph a collection of palm-leaf manuscripts in Tamil Nadu.
The Tamilex monthly seminar will take place on 6 August 2024, at 10:30 CET. This will be hybrid event; for the Zoom link, please contact Charles Li(charles.li"AT"uni-hamburg.de).
