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... Tamil Buddhist texts , especially the Viracoliyam ( c . AD 1000 ) which codified the rules for Tamilising Sanskrit words ; this sometimes wholesale incorporation of Sanskrit concepts and categories into Tamil only illustrates the ...
... Tamil Buddhist texts , especially the Viracoliyam ( c . AD 1000 ) which codified the rules for Tamilising Sanskrit words ; this sometimes wholesale incorporation of Sanskrit concepts and categories into Tamil only illustrates the ...
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... Tamil literature . He explained that he had gathered traditional texts by buying them from the ' widows of deceased Brahmins ' so that he could understand their idolatry the better to condemn it . He also was one of the first Europeans ...
... Tamil literature . He explained that he had gathered traditional texts by buying them from the ' widows of deceased Brahmins ' so that he could understand their idolatry the better to condemn it . He also was one of the first Europeans ...
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... Tamil texts on his own and without mention of the College : a miscellany ( Nannul , Purapporul Venpa Malai and Akapporul Vilakkam ) in 1835 ; and Centan Tivakaram ( with Nayanappa Mutaliyar ) in 1836. Tantavaraya Mutaliyar's shift from ...
... Tamil texts on his own and without mention of the College : a miscellany ( Nannul , Purapporul Venpa Malai and Akapporul Vilakkam ) in 1835 ; and Centan Tivakaram ( with Nayanappa Mutaliyar ) in 1836. Tantavaraya Mutaliyar's shift from ...
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