Ōlaic cuvaṭikaḷil toṭakkāla tamiḻ kiṟistava iṟaineṟi pāṭaḷkaḷ (1714): mūlamum viḷakkamum [in Tamil: Theological worship songs of the earliest Tamils from a palm leaf manuscript, 1714: Original text with an explanation]
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool Hope University
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- dDJ12D
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Institute of Asian Studies
- ISBN
- 978-81-87892-55-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This is a major piece of primary research, involving the retrieval of key texts from 18th century palm leaf manuscripts and making a significant contribution to Tamil cultural memory and linguistics. This edition retains the original orthography, lexis and semantics of the manuscript and gives their modern equivalents in the footnote apparatus, making available to the scholarly community a unique text and witness to a striking example of historical inter-cultural dialogue In so doing, it contributes to contemporary studies on Tamil linguistics, grammar and music.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Ōlaiccuvaṭikaḷil toṭakkakālat tamiḻkkiṟistava iṟaineṟippāṭalkaḷ (1714): Mūlamum viḷakkamum (in Tamil: Earliest Tamil Christian Spiritual Songs – 1714 – from a Palm Leaf Manuscript: Original Text with Explanation), Chennai, Institute of Asian Studies, 2014, NB: An English synopsis on pages 53–55; an English summary of each hymn is provided at the end of the same hymn
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- This philological edition retrieves from a palm leaf manuscript 48 Tamil Lutheran hymns sung by the first Tamil Lutheran congregation in Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu. These hymns have synthesized theological, religious and cultural concepts of the German Lutheran Pietists and Tamil bhakti religions such as Shaivism and Vaishnavism. They demonstrate how the Tamil Lutherans celebrated their new theological insights in recurring festivals and rites of passage. This edition retains the original orthography, lexis and semantics of the manuscript and gives their modern equivalents in the footnote apparatus. Thus it contributes to contemporary studies on Tamil linguistics, grammar and music.
