maturaic cokkanAtar tamiz viTutUtu

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A famous Tamil prabandham, of anonymous authorship

and dating to 16-17th centuries CE, has been placed

in Project Madurai. It is at:

http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/pub/pm0040/tviTutUtu.pdf

 

It was first edited by Sri. U. V. Swaminaathaiyar

in 1930 from a rare, single manuscript he received

from a family of Tamil lovers. Thanks to UVS,

this beautiful text was saved for posterity.

The grand editor of tamil classical texts has described

how he came to possess its Olai manuscript

vividly in an essay, "in2n2umaRiyEn2" (nallurai-k-kOvai, vol. III).

 

I created the PDF e-version of "maturaic cokkanAtar tamiz viTutUtu"

maintaining the veNpA metrics, using two print editions:

a) ti. caGkup pulavar (uraiyAciriyar), maturaic cokkanAtar

tamiz viTutUtu, SISS society, Chennai, 1966

and, b) UVS (editor), maturaic cokkanAtar tamiz viTutUtu,

UVS Library, Kalakhestra, Adayar, Madras, 1981.

 

There is a study of this text in English:

Sumathi Ramaswamy, Language of the People in the World

of Gods: Ideologies of Tamil before the Nation, Journal

of Asian studies, Volume 57, Issue 1 (Feb. 1998), p. 66-92.

In some kaNNis (2-line verses) of this ~400 years old text,

Tamil and Sanskrit are compared while addressing Madurai

Cokkar/Sundaresvarar.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan