Maanasa Visweswaran

Maanasa Visweswaran did her undergraduate in South Asian Studies (via Sanskrit Pathway) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in London, from 2015 to 2019. In 2017-2018, as part of the degree programme, she did an intensive course in Sanskrit at the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in Pune. She subsequently studied Classical Tamil at the University of Hamburg under Prof. Dr. Eva Wilden and Dr. Jean-Luc Chevillard. For her Master’s thesis, she submitted an annotated translation of the Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai and presented an analysis of the Sanskrit influence on the text. From December 2022, she was employed by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) as a research associate on the project “The Use of Grantha in Classical Tamil Manuscripts.” For her PhD, she is currently working on an annotated translation and critical edition of the Ciṟupāṇāṟṟuppaṭai, for which there are 10 surviving manuscripts. Her research interests include Classical Tamil literature, Tamil Śāstric literature, Tamil commentaries and Sanskrit Kāvya.