Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the following book ⸺ an output of the project NETamil and of its follow-up project TST ⸺ in the Indian and Tibetan Studies Series of the Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universitat Hamburg:

Colophons, prefaces, satellite stanzas: Paratextual elements and their role in the transmission of Indian texts. Ed. by Eva Wilden and Suganya Anandakichenin.

It is available OA here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/TST/hal-03186034v1

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The ToC is given below.

With very best wishes.

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Preface by Eva Wilden

Introduction by Eva Wilden

Literary Traditions

Jonas Buchholz: Construing a Corpus: the Mnemonic Stanza on the Kīḻkkaṇakku Works

K. Nachimuthu: Tiruvaḷḷuvamālai: Prolegomena to Tirukkuṟaḷ?

Sascha Ebeling: Appeasing the Assembly – The History, Poetics and Social Logic of the avaiyaṭakkam Stanza in Tamil Literature

Bidur Bhattarai: Praising the Work and Colophonic Features in Manuscripts Containing Sanskrit Texts

Grammatical Tradition

Victor D’Avella: Orbiting Material in Tamil Grammatical Texts

Devotional Traditions

Emmanuel Francis: Supplementing Poetry and Devotion: The Additional Stanzas to the Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai

Eva Wilden: Colophon Stanza – Taṉiyaṉ – Signature Verse

Judith Unterdörfler: Expression of Devotion when Copying Texts ‒ A Critical Study of Selected Sanskrit Manuscripts

Hagiographical Traditions

Suganya Anandakichenin: The Taṉiyaṉ: Its Role, Evolution and Importance in the Śrīvaiṣṇava Tradition

Shubha Shanthamurthy: Evolution of the Tamil Śaiva Hagiographical Tradition from Marginalia to Mainstage

Erin McCann: The Tivyappirapantam as seen through the Rāmānujanūṟṟantāti

Theological Traditions

R. Sathyanarayanan/Dominic Goodall: South-Indian Śaiva Colophons

Cristina Muru: Packaging Text: Paratextual Elements in Christian Manuscripts of Tamil (16th -18th Cent.)