[INDOLOGY] in praise of water

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Hello Alex,

As a complement to V.S. Rajam's message,
I would suggest having a look at F.W. Ellis's
dissertation on the Kuṟaḷ,
which is freely available online at
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H4IIAAAAQAAJ

Francis Whyte Ellis (1777–1819)
was a British civil servant in the Madras Presidency and a scholar of 
Tamil and Sanskrit.

His translation (and copious explanations) of the initial part of the 
Kuṟaḷ, in which the (second) chapter called "The praise of rain", 
occupies pp.44-55 in the PDF file, and directly follows the first 
chapter ("The praise of God", pp. 6-43 of the PDF),
contains long quotations from many other works,
and gives a fairly good idea of what it was to discover, in those days,
Indian Classical Literatures through the mediation of Tamil scholars,
when all the modern easy ENGLISH BYPASS ROADS TO KNOWLEDGE did not yet 
exist ..

-- Jean-Luc (in Paris)

https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard

https://twitter.com/JLC1956


On 12/01/2018 19:09, rajam via INDOLOGY wrote:
> My posting may be ignored since it concerns Tamil, not Sanskrit!!
> 
> In Tamil we have a proverb:
> 
> “tāyaip paḻittālum taṇṇīraip paḻikkātē (தாயைப் பழித்தாலும் தண்ணீரைப் பழிக்காதே)”
> meaning, “Don’t revile the water even if you revile your mother.”
> 
> The well-known literature Tirukkuṟaḷ has a chapter on rain/water.
> Ancient Tamil poetry has some nice references in praise of water.
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2018, at 5:57 AM, Alex Watson via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear List Members
>>
>> A friend has asked if I could help him collect Sanskrit verses in praise of water.
>> He's not thinking so much of verses praising specific rivers, but water as such.
>> Does anything come to mind?
>>
>> Yours Alex
>> -- 
>> Alex Watson
>> Professor of Indian Philosophy
>> Ashoka University
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