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[Thomas Malten]

   INSTITUTE OF INDOLOGY AND TAMIL STUDIES, KOELN UNIVERSITY, GERMANY

                                                             19.08.93



                              ANNOUNCEMENT


The Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies has installed an Internet
Gopher Information Server at linus.informatik.uni-koeln.de.

It can be reached by typing:

"gopher linus.informatik.uni-koeln.de"

The Gopher is to provide access to the data of the "Thesaurus of Tamil
Texts" (TTT), a project by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies,
Koeln University in collaboration with the Dept.of Indology, South Asia
Institute, Heidelberg University. TTT consists of the major classical
Tamil texts starting with Sangam literature. All the texts are also
indexed cumulatively.

The texts on the Gopher Server will be expanded continuously.

As of today, 19.08.93, the following materials are available:

- Index of Sangam Literature

- Complete Ascii Word List of Sangam Literature (200K)

- Akananuru text

- Preliminary version of Kambaramayana Index

We shall install a catalogue of the Tamil Library of this Institute
shortly, as well as a Tamil dictionary based on the Madras Tamil
Lexicon.


* Further information, suggestions and corrections:
* ami01 at rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Thomas Malten)



-Thomas Malten