Commentary on Tevaram

[jlc at ccr.jussieu.fr]

Dear Jan,

I believe you are familiar with the edition made by the French
Institute of Pondicherry PIFI 68-1 [1984], 68-2 [1985], 68-3 [1991].

Although it is not an edition with commentary, it splits the text
into words, which allows Prof. Gros to say in his introduction:
 "Our edition is intended to be an aid to reading
  and understanding it and the considerable effort
  involved in this version, that is to say, besides
  the introduction of ponctuation, the significant use
  of spaces between words and of the hiatus, represents
  a more economical equivalent to a continuous commentary
  on each verse."

I believe you are also familiar with the english translations
(which I mention for other people's sake)
of considerable parts of Teevaaram by
 1. Indira V. Peterson,
              _Poems to S'iva,
              The Hymns of the Tamil saints_,
               Original edition: 1989; Princeton 
               Indian edition: 1991; Motilal Banarsidass
 2.  David D. Shulman
              _Songs of the harsh devotee,
              The Teevaaram of Cuntaramuurtinaayan_aar_
              1990, University of Pennsylvania

When it comes to commented editions, I can mention
the Dharmapura Aadinam edition which seems to cover
all the Tirumur_ai (I only have the volumes for
the 4th [1957] and the 9th [1969]).

But may be someone else can add more information

Best wishes

- Jean-Luc Chevillard
  (CNRS, Universite' Paris7)


>Dear friends,
>
>Can anyone of you recommend me a commented edition of TEVARAM? I would
>rather have a word-to-word commentary, but a "translation" into Tamil would 
>be also welcome.
>
>     | Mr. Jan Dvorak, M.A
>     | Czech Republic 
>     | E-mail:  dvorakj at dec59.ruk.cuni.cz



> From D.Wujastyk at wellcome.ac.uk 31 96 Jan EST 12:42:00
Date: 31 Jan 96 12:42:00 EST
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A colleague of mine has the appended query.  Replies to 
c.hilton at wellcome.ac.uk, or to me at d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk.

Many thanks,
Dominik Wujastyk

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To: Wujastyk Dr Dominik

I'm trying to identify the author of a letter in a little collection 
currently being catalogued.  The date is 1881, place of address Colombo and 
the signature looks like "W. Sulehuti"; a later owner of the letter has 
commented underneath "Buddhist monk, best Pali scholar in Ceylon".  It would 
be nice to be sure that I've read the signature correctly - does that name 
or a variant thereof ring any bells with you?

Thanks, 
Chris