South Indian horizons:
felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Edited by Jean-Luc Chevillard (editor) and Eva Wilden (associate editor)
with the collaboration of A. Murugaiyan,
Preface by R.E. Asher.
Publications du département d’indologie 94,
IFP, EFEO, 2004, xlv, 651 p. Rs. 1000.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• (pp. i-xlv)
  • Copyright-ISSN-ISBN ((***))
  • Table of contents (v-vi)
  • Acknowledgements/Remerciements (vii)
  • Preface/aNinturai [R.E. Asher] (ix-xv)
  • "Ma vie sans moi" [François Gros] (xvii-xx)
  • Foreword/Avant-propos: Horizons des Études Tamoules --[Jean-Luc Chevillard] (xxi-xxix)
  • Searching for Perspectives (Second Foreword) --[Eva Wilden] (xxxi-xxxiv)
  • List of participants (xxxv-xlv)
• Studies in Devotional, Contemporary, Classical and Folk literatures (pp. 1-278)
  • 1) Judit Törzsök --> s'iva le fou et ses dévots tamouls dans le tEvAram (pp.3-28)
  • 2) Alvappillai Veluppillai --> The Position of Saint Appar in Tamil s'aivism (pp.29-47)
  • 3) Emanuela Panattoni -->Il tirukkuRuntANTakam e il tiruneTuntANTakam di TirumaGkaiyAZvAr (pp. 49-61)
  • 4) S. Palaniappan --> AZvAr or nAyan2r: The Role of Sound Variation, Hypercorrection and Folk Etymology
    in Interpreting the Nature of VaiSNava Saint-Poets (pp. 63-84)
  • 5) Indira Viswanathan Peterson --> s'aiva religion and the performing arts in a Tamil Novel: kalaimaNi’s TillAn2A mOkan2AmpAl (pp. 85-106)
  • 6) R.E. Asher --->Vaikom Muhammed Basheer : Freedom Fighting into Fiction (pp. 107-125)
  • 7) Chantal Delamourd --> La Poésie des “Vies Minuscules” dans Kan2ivu, Recueil de Nouvelles de Vannadasan (pp. 127-135)
  • 8) Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi --> Facing Death in Modern Tamil Literature (pp. 137-148)
  • 9) E. Annamalai --> Post-Modern Trends in Tamil (pp. 149-155)
  • 10) David Shulman --> Notes on Tillaikkalampakam (pp. 157-176)
  • 11) Eva Wilden --> On the Condensation and Extension of Knowledge: The sUtra Style in the tolkAppiyam poruLatikAram (pp. 177-206)
  • 12) Takanobu Takahashi --> tolkAppiyam poruLatikAram and iRaiyan2Ar AkapporuL: Their Relative Chronology (pp. 207-217)
  • 13) George L. Hart --> Syntax and Perspective in Tamil and Sanskrit Classical Poetry (pp. 219-227)
  • 14) A. G. Menon --> Configuration of Natural Elements in the Mountain songs (pp. 229-255)
  • 15) Alexander Dubyanski --> The Tamil literary background of the s'akuntala nATakam (pp. 257-267)
  • 16) Dieter B. Kapp --> rAmAyaNa Allusions in Tamil Riddles (pp. 269-278)
• Studies in Language and History of Language Description (pp. 279-433)
  • 17) Kamil Zvelebil --> Prolegomena to an Etymological Dictionary to the iRula Language (pp. 281-290)
  • 18) V.I. Subramonian --> A Note on the -Are person number marking suffix in Gundert's writings (pp. 291-292)
  • 19) Harold F. Schiffman --> The Tamil Case System (pp. 293-305)
  • 20) Thomas Lehmann --> Pronoun Incorporation in Old Tamil (pp. 307-322)
  • 21) S. Agesthialingom --> Numeral system in Tamil: Generation (pp. 323-332)
  • 22) Jaroslav Vacek --> Dravidian and Altaic: “Sheep - Deer - Cattle” (pp. 333-345)
  • 23) Peter Schalk --> Robert Caldwell’s Derivation IZam < sIhaLa: A Critical Assessment (pp. 347-364)
  • 24) Herman Tieken --> The Nature of the Language of caGkam Poetry (pp. 365-387)
  • 25) Sheldon Pollock --> A New Philology: From Norm-bound Practice to Practice-bound Norm in Kannada Intellectual History (pp. 389-406)
  • 26) Jean-Luc Chevillard --> Ideophones in Tamil: a historical perspective on the X-en2al expressives (olikkuRippu ARRuppaTai) (pp. 407-433)
• Studies in History, Epigraphy and Archaeology(pp. 435-594)
  • 27) Leslie Orr --> Processions in the medieval South Indian temple: Sociology, sovereignty and soteriology (pp. 437-470)
  • 28) Kesavan Veluthat --> MahOdayapuram-KoTuGGallUr: a Capital City as a Sacred Centre (pp. 471-485)
  • 29) R. Nagaswamy --> Sangam poetic traditions under the Imperial cOZa-s (pp. 487-494)
  • 30) Sascha Ebeling --> "The Digital Archive of South Indian Inscriptions (DASI) -- A First Report" (pp. 495-503)
  • 31) Iravatham Mahadevan --> Voicing of consonants in Old Tamil: New evidence from Tamil-BrAhmI (pp. 505-511)
  • 32) (late) Vimala Begley (with foreword by I. Mahadevan) --> The Dating of Arikamedu and its Bearing
    on the Archaeology of Early Historical South India (pp. 513-527) & (pp. 528-537)
  • 33) Osmund Bopearachchi --> New Archaeological evidence on cultural and commercial relationships
    between ancient Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu (pp. 539-551)
  • 34) G. Vijayavenugopal --> New Jaina Inscriptions from kUvan2Ur (pp. 553-560)
  • 35) Appasamy Murugaiyan --> Stèles funéraires en Pays Tamoul: langue et société au 6è -7è siècles (pp. 561-581)
  • 36) Y. Subbarayalu --> eRivIrapaTTin2am, Warriors and the State in Medieval South India (pp. 583-594)
• Chant-mêlé ou paripATal ou Satura (pp. 595-651)
  • 37) Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman & Sanjay Subrahmaniam --> A new imperial idiom in the sixteenth century Krishnadevaraya and his political theory of Vijayanagara (pp. 597-625)
  • 38) U. Niklas --> Bulls for St. Anthony: Religio-Cultural Syncretism in a ceTTinATu Village (pp. 627-634)
  • 39) A.R. Venkatachalapathy --> Triumph of Tobacco: the Tamil Experience (pp. 635-641)
  • 40) T.V. Gopal Iyer --> The victory in human life (pp. 643-645)
  • 41) M. Kannan --> Five poems (pp. 647-651)