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29 août 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.enseditions.32160
- isbn: 9782847884173
- eisbn: 9791036204425
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Jean-Luc Chevillard, « Snapshots of the Tamil scholarly tradition », ENS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.enseditions.32160
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(TP422p) Introduction Because it has long been impossible to preserve old records in the warm and humid climate of South India, except by engraving them as inscriptions on stone (or on copper plates...) and because such a reliable method never seems to have been used for Tamil scholarly texts, we are never in a position to directly examine ancient written artefacts which could inform us precisely and with certitude on the early stages of the native Tamil literary (profane and devotional) and ...