Table des matières

Présentation des éditeurs

Dedication

Will Sweetman

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

• Ziegenbalg’s encounter with Tamil
• The Bibliotheca Malabarica
• Catholic and Muslim works
• “Heathen” works
• Grammar, poetics, and lexicography
• Early didactic literature
• Later didactic literature
• Canonical works
• Translations from Sanskrit
• Epics and epic episodes
• Purāṇas
• Caiva cittānta
• Cittar works
• Prabhanda and ciṟṟilakkiyam
• Folk works
• Astrology and divination
• The character of Ziegenbalg’s library
• Ziegenbalg’s library after 1708
• Manuscripts of the Bibliotheca Malabarica
• The Sloane manuscript
• The Halle manuscript
• The Copenhagen manuscript
• The Mackenzie Collection manuscript
• Ziegenbalg’s collection
• The sources of Ziegenbalg’s collection
• Maṭams, paṇṭārams, and Ziegenbalg’s library
• The Tirikāla cakkaram and the Genealogia der malabarischen Götter
• The Tirikāla cakkaram and the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai maṭam
• Ziegenbalg’s library and his account of Hinduism
• A note on the format of the edition

Bibliotheca Malabarica: text and translation

Tamil works in Ziegenbalg’s later writings

• Malabarisches Heidenthum
• Works on ritual
• Works on divination
• Genealogia der malabarischen Götter
• Śaiva purāṇas

Bibliography

Index of Tamil works