Between Preservation and Recreation

Wilden, Eva (Hrsg.):
Between Preservation and Recreation : Tamil traditions of commentary ; proceedings of a workshop in honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer / ed. by Eva Wilden. - Pondichéry : Institut Français de Pondichéry ; École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2009. - xiv, 319 S. - (Collection Indologie ; 109)
ISBN 978-81-8470-173-9 - 978-2-85539-674-3
Rs. 600,00
EUR 26,00

Beschreibung
The seed from which this book germinated was a workshop entitled "Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary in Pursuit of the Caṅkam Era", held in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO in July 2006 in honour of the late and much lamented Pandit T.V. Gopal Iyer. A presentation of the life and work of T.V. Gopal Iyer, along with his bibliography, is followed by essays.
   After a general introduction by Eva Wilden, Thomas Lehmann gives a survey of the types of commentary found in Tamil. Jean-Luc Chevillard addresses the interaction between scholastic Sanskrit and Tamil. G. Vijayavenugopal, Eva Wilden and A. Dhamodharan deal with the genre of grammatical and poetological commentaries. Martine Gestin explores the possibilities of retrieving social and anthropological information from a poetological commentary. T.V. Gopal Iyer (†2007), T.S. Gangadharan and T. Rajeswari write about literary commentaries. R. Varadadesikan introduces the genre of Vaishnava theological exegesis and, finally, Sascha Ebeling characterises the “neo-commentaries” of the 19th century. [Institut Français de Pondichéry]

Inhalt
PREFACE
   - E. Wilden: Remembering T.V. Gopal Iyer. ix
   - S. Ebeling: The Death of a Discipline: In memoriam T.V. Gopal Iyer. xi
BIOGRAPHY OF T.V.G.
   - T.V. Gopal Iyer: tamiḻ paḻutta uḷḷam [in Tamil]. 1
   - R. Ilakkuvan: A Life-time for the Cause of Tamil. 13
   - R. Ilakkuvan: Bibliography of T.V. Gopal Iyer. 23
   - C.V. of T.V. Gopal Iyer. 35
INTRODUCTION
   - E. Wilden: Between Preservation and Recreation - Tamil Traditions of commentary. 37
GENERAL OUTLINES
   - T. Lehmann: A Survey of Classical Tamil Commentary Literature. 55
   - J.-L. Chevillard: The Meta-grammatical Vocabulary inside the Lists of 32 tantrayuktis and Its Adaptation to Tamil - Towards a Sanskrit-Tamil Dictionary. 71
ON GRAMMAR AND POETICS
   - G. Vijayavenugopal: Tolkāppiyam -- A Treatise on the Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetry. 133
   - E. Wilden: Canonisation of Classical Tamil Texts in the Mirror of the Poetological Commentaries. 145
   - A. Dhamodharan: kaḷaviyal uraiyiṉ naṭai [in Tamil]. 167
   - M. Gestin: A Brilliant Gloss for Tamil Social History: Pre-marital Courtship and Marriage at the Time of Nakkīrar. 183
ON POETRY
   - T.V. Gopal Iyer: Our Debt of Gratitude to the Commentators. 227
   - T. S. Gangadharan: The Commentator's Interpretation Illumines Our Illusive Attempt to Give a Verbatim Meaning -- Parimēlaḻakar's Commentary on the Kuṟaḷ. 237
   - T. Rajeswari: Pālaikkali Verses and Their Authors. 255
ON THEOLOGY
   - R. Varada Desikan: The Influence of Society, Religion and Politics on the Vaiṣṇava Maṇippiravāḷam Commentaries between the 11th and 15th c. A.D. 269
ON THE REVIVAL OF THE 19TH CENTURY
   - S. Ebeling: Tamil or ‘Incomprehensible Scribble'? The Tamil Philological Commentary (urai) in the 19th Century. 281
NOTES ON THE AUTHORS. 313
FRENCH RÉSUMÉS. 317

Quellen: Institut Français de Pondichéry; École Française d'Extrême-Orient; Mailing-Liste Indology, Mitteilung von J.-L. Chevillard, 10. Sept. 2009.