Table des matières

Présentation des éditeurs

Whitney Cox et Vincenzo Vergiani

Preface

Dominic Goodall

Introduction

Section I. Literary audience and religious community

Charlotte Schmid

The contribution of Tamil literature to the Kṛṣṇa figure of the Sanskrit texts: the case of the kaṉṟu in Cilappatikāram 17

• 1. Kṛṣṇa elements in Cilappatikāram
• 2. The legend of Kṛṣṇa in Cilappatikāram 17
• 3. The kaṉṟu motif
• 4. The Cilappatikāram 17 stanza and the oldest Sanskrit texts
• 5. kaṉṟu, Dhenuka and the Tiv
• 6. Sanskrit texts of South India
• 7. The shadow-motif
• 8. Conclusions

Takanobu Takahashi

Is clearing or plowing equal to killing? Tamil culture and the spread of Jainism in Tamilnadu

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Words meaning “to kill” in Tamil
• 3. Laying or felling trees is killing
• 4. Clearing the forest is killing
• 5. Five divisions of Tamil country and mullai
• 6. Is kollai a cleared field?
• 7. Plowing is killing
• 8. Kol and Jainism
• 9. Concluding remarks

Herman Tieken

Early Tamil poetics between Nāṭyaśāstra and Rāgamālā

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Tamil literary theory
• 3. Plant names as technical terms from music
• 4. jāti, rāga and Rāgamālā
• 5. Poetry and singing
• 6. The numbers seven and five
• 7. Conclusion

Section II. Regulating language: grammars and literary theories

Eva wilden

The ten stages of passion (daśa kāmāvasthāḥ) and eight types of marriage (aṣṭavivāha) in the Tolkāppiyam

• 1. Introduction: The discourse horizon of Tamil poetics
• 2. Kaḷavu
• 2.1. Definitions of kaḷavu
• 2.2. The Ten Stages of Passion
• 2.3. aiyam — Doubt
• 3. kaṟpu
• 4. Conclusion: The mutual influence of theories and practices

Whitney Cox

From source-criticism to intellectual history in the poetics of the medieval Tamil country

• 1. Iḷampūraṇar and the question of mĕyppāṭu
• 2. Śāradātanaya’s confected authorities
• 3. Map and territory

Vincenzo Vergiani

The adoption of Bhartṛhari’s classification of the grammatical object in Cēṉāvaraiyar’s commentary on the Tolkāppiyam

• 1. The grammatical object (karman) in the context of Pāṇini’s kāraka system
• 2. The TC on the grammatical object (ceyappaṭuporuḷ) and the second case (ai-vēṟṟumai)
• 3. Bhartṛhari’s classification of the varieties of the grammatical object
• 4. Cēṉāvaraiyar’s classification of the grammatical object
• 5. The case of the karmakartṛ, the “agent treated as an object”
• 6. From Bhartṛhari to Cēṉāvaraiyar
• 7. Pāli grammars
• 8. Conclusions

Rich Freeman

Caught in Translation: Ideologies of literary language in Kerala’s Maṇipravāḷam

• 1. The global project and structure of the Līlātilakam
• 2. Phonological disquisitions
• 3. The amalgam of words
• 4. Making the case for “case”
• 5. Sanskrit poetics in the Kerala context

Jean-Luc Chevillard

Enumeration techniques in Tamil metrical treatises (Studies in Tamil Metrics–3)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prologue
• 3. How Iḷampūraṇar explains “six hundred and twenty-five”
• 4. How Iḷampūraṇar explains “seventy”
• 5. The sounds of Classical Tamil and the formation of acai according to the Tolkāppiyam
• 6. Counting eḻutt^u-s in acai-s and in cīr-s
• 7. Counting eḻutt^u-s in the cīr-s of veṇpā metre
• 8. Which are the loci (nilam-s) represented in veṇpā lines?
• 9. What is a Kaṭṭaḷaiyaṭi “touchstone line” for Pērāciriyar?
• 10. The nature of the kuṟṟiyalukaram
• 11. The simplification of Tamil metrics by later metricians
• 12. How the author of YV explains “seventy”
• 13. How the author of YV explains “six hundred and twenty-five”
• 14. Are these notions applicable to “real” literature?
• 15. How Pērāciriyar and Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar explain “six hundred and twenty-five”
• 16. How Pērāciriyar and Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar explain “seventy”
• 17. Poets, theoreticians of poetry and the metaphor of walking
• 18. The changing notion of taḷai
• 19. The “standard doctrine” concerning taḷai
• 20. Conclusion: appraising the three interpretations of TP357i

Section III. Written in stone? Shifting registers of inscriptional discourse

Leslie C. Orr

Words for Worship: Tamil and Sanskrit in medieval temple inscriptions

• 1. Ways to write about worship
• 2. Spaces and structures for worship
• 3. Making offerings and organizing worship
• 4. Concluding discussion

Emmanuel Francis

Praising the king in Tamil during the Pallava period

• 1. Pallava political Tamil (ca. 600–900)
• 1.1. Birudas in the upper cave at Trichy (ca. 600–630)
• 1.2. Tamil birudas and titles of the Pallavas (7^th to 9^th century)
• 1.3. Anuṣṭubh and veṇpā in Taḷavāṉūr cave (ca. 600–630)
• 1.4. Tamil inscriptions at Centalai (8^th century)
• 1.5. The narrative inscriptions in the Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ at Kāñcīpuram (ca. 800)
• 1.6. Pallava political Tamil under Nandin III (ca. 850)
• 2. Vernacularisation: a literarisation of the vernacular?

Timothy Lubin

Legal Diglossia: Modeling discursive practices in premodern Indic law

• 1. The problem
• 2. Code-switching, loan-words, and diglossia
• 3. Bilingualism in the spread of Brahmanical law
• 3.1. Cambodia
• 3.2. Java
• 3.3. Tamil Nadu
• 4. Criteria for distinguishing differences of register in ancient South Indian texts
• 5. The exhibits
• Exhibit B: Contract regarding a giftto a temple (mid-10^th century)
• Exhibits C and D: Certification and Reconfirmation (late 11^th and late 12^th century)
• Exhibit E: Appeal to the jurisprudential principle of bhukti (mid-13^th century)
• Exhibit F: A highly Sanskritized record of a ‘statutory reform’ (15^th century)
• 6. Conclusions

Contributors

Index