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Realia in Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry

10 “The Pakaṉṟai Flower and Fuller’s Earth” (september 2023) pdf

9 “The Fifteen Meanings of Tamil pāṇṭil” (May 2023)  pdf 

8 “Red-brick Town Walls in Caṅkam Poetry” (April 2022) pdf

7 “Rendering the Lower-mid Front Vowel /ǣ/ in Old and Middle Tamil” (January 2022) pdf

 6 “Ground Snakes and Chameleons in their Summer Garbs” (December 2021) pdf

5 “A Songster’s Hairdo, a Waistcloth, and a Pregnant Lizard” (October 2021) pdf

4 “Ādiśeṣa and the Anchor Rope” (August 2012) pdf

3 “Mud in the Mouth: Akanāṉūṟu 101″ (June 2021) pdf

2 “Of Bees, Dragonflies and Drones” (June 2021) pdf 

1 “Murukaṉ in the Molucca beans” (June 2021) (new version September 2023) pdf

 

Hors-séries:

Cāṟu, “festival”, in Caṅkam Poetry”. In: Tamiḻ tanta paricu. The collection of articles in honor of Alexander M. Dubyanskiy. Ed. by O. Vecherina, N. Gordiychuk and T. Dubyanskaya. Orientalia et Classica LXIII. Moscow 2016, pp. 101-123. pdf

“The Weaver Bird in Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: A Critical Essay on the Method of Translating Classical Tamil Poetry”, Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 21 (1997), pp. 293-319. 

“Middle-Indic tuppa, Tamil tuppu, and the relative chronology of several Śvetāmbara Jaina Texts”. Bulletin d’Études Indiennes 13-14 (1995-1996), 415-429.