Proceedings of the Second International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies

Volume Two

Publised On :

October 1971

Pages :

xi + 559

Size :

Royal : 15.6 x 23.4 cm

Editor :

Asher, R. E.

International Association of Tamil Research

Published By :

International Association of Tamil Research - Madras

Funded By :

UNESCO

Printed By :

Hoe & Co - The Premier Press, 31 Stringer Street, Madras - 1

Number of Articles	Number of Presenters	Number of Categories
82	76	21

Articles
Presenters
Categories

1 .	"Mercury - the Universal Remedy for almost all Diseases" according to Siddhas' Concept

	Shanmugavelu, M.
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (3. Medicine)
	Pages : 531-534

2 .	A Note on Kutinjcippaattu

	Dorai Rangaswamy M. A.
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 9-18

3 .	A Study of the Meykkiirththis of the Cholas

	Thillainathan, Sinnathamby
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 422-426

4 .	A Study of the Tamil Jaina Inscriptions at Kalukumalai

	Velupillai, A.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 416-421

5 .	A Study of Two Types of Folk Drama Peculiar to the Tamils of Ceylon

	Vithiananthan, S.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (3. Dance and Drama)
	Pages : 457-462

6 .	A Tamil Biljet relating to the Obligatory Services of Certain Subjects of the Dutch Government in Ceylon

	Thananjayarajasingham, Sabaratnasingham
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 307-311

7 .	A Tamil Document relating to Numismatic Changes of the Dutch Period in Ceylon

	Thananjayarajasingham, Sabaratnasingham
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 312-314

8 .	Agricultural Colonisation of the Dry Zone by the Ceylon Tamils

	Fonseka, H. N. C.
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 324-327

9 .	An Analysis of a Malaysian Tamil Novel (Koorakaanhthan allathu then malaayaa kiriyil vata ilangkai thuppaalhi)

	Ramachandran, V. N.
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 143-151

10 .	An Outline of China's Contact with South India in the Early Fifteenth Century

	Huang, Da-Show
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (6. External Relations)
	Pages : 365-368

11 .	An Unpublished Māhisāsuramarddani in Thailand

	Diskul, M. C. Subhadradis
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (2. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting)
	Pages : 432-433

12 .	Antiarthritic and Anti-inflammatory Activity of Neem Oil (Meazadirachta linn) and its Constituents

	Shankara Narayanan, David
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (3. Medicine)
	Pages : 545-552

13 .	Archæology and the South-Indian Dravidian Problem

	Joseph, P.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 387-393

14 .	Aryanization and Sanskritization of Dravidian-speaking Tribal Groups in Central and Eastern India

	Aiyappan, Aiynapalli
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 289-294

15 .	Cilampam : A Brief Historical Review and Evaluation

	Manual Raj, David J.
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 280-283

16 .	Commercial Policies of the Sethupathis of Ramanathapuram 1660-1690

	Arasaratnam, Sinnappah
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 251-256

17 .	Common Elements Between Early Tamil and Indo-Aryan Literature

	Hart, George Luzerne
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 168-170

18 .	Consolidation of Feudalism and Anti-feudal Struggles during Chola Imperialist Rule

	Vanamamalai, N
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (2. The Period of Empires)
	Pages : 239-244

19 .	Contribution of Tamil Savants to Sanskrit Studies

	Thirugnanasambandhan, P.
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 179-181

20 .	Educational and Marriage Reforms in Tamil Writing (1880–1950)

	Loganayagy Nannithamby
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 136-142

21 .	Folk Music of Tamilnad

	Shyamala, Balakrishnan
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (4. Music)
	Pages : 480-491

22 .	Genesis of the Tamil Kingdom in Jaffna

	Tambiah, Henry Wijeyakone
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 298-302

23 .	Handicrafts of Tamilnad from Ancient Times to the Present

	Kamaladevi, Chattopadhyay
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (5. Handicrafts)
	Pages : 492-510

24 .	Historical Ecotypes in South India

	Stein, Burton
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 284-288

25 .	Hypotensive Effects of Carica Papaya

	Padmanabhan, N.
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (3. Medicine)
	Pages : 553-556

26 .	Indian Labour in the Rice Industry of Pre-War Burma

	Hwa, Cheng Sok
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (5. Malaysia and Burma)
	Pages : 341-352

27 .	Influence of Tholkaappiyam and Akapporulh in Sanskrit Poetics

	Rajagopalan, N. V.
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 171-178

28 .	Kāraikkālammaiyār in Cambodia

	Benisti, Mireille
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 402-404

29 .	Melodic and Harmonic Systems of Music

	Sambamoorthy, P.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (4. Music)
	Pages : 463-465

30 .	Mrs. Annie Besant and the Rise of Political Activity in South India, 1914-1919

	Owen, Hugh Francis
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 257-266

31 .	Muppuu

	Venugopal, P. M.
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (3. Medicine)
	Pages : 541-544

32 .	Muslim Literary Forms in Tamil Literature

	Uwise, Mahamood Mohamed
	Category : Part I - Literature (6. Muslim Literature)
	Pages : 182-189

33 .	Mutahir, a Tamil Prime Minister of Malacca

	Lee, Orient
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (5. Malaysia and Burma)
	Pages : 328-332

34 .	Nature in Bharati's Poetry

	Maheswari Mahadeva
	Category : Part I - Literature (3. Modern Poetry)
	Pages : 79-88

35 .	New Light on the Lingka Cult

	Murugesa Mudaliar, N.
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (1. Sangam Period)
	Pages : 226-232

36 .	On the Need of a Detailed Survey of Koodiyattam and Bhaagavata melanaatakam

	Byrski, Christopher M
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (3. Dance and Drama)
	Pages : 453-456

37 .	Padre Henrique Henriques, the Father of the Tamil Press

	Rajamanickam, S
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (2. Printing)
	Pages : 520-527

38 .	Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri (1859–1906), Pioneer Tamil Novelist

	Asher, R. E.
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 107-115

39 .	Plant Names in Tholkaappiyam

	Samy, P. L.
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 41-54

40 .	Puthumaippiththan's Contribution to Modern Tamil Literature

	Visswanathan, E. Sa
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 122-129

41 .	Scientific Literature in Tamil for Laymen

	Shanmugasundaram, G
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (1. General)
	Pages : 511-519

42 .	Six Unpublished Letters of Fr Roberto Nobili existing in the Vatican Library

	Wicki, Joseph Anton
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 295-297

43 .	Some Ancient Crafts and Technology in Tamilnad as Revealed in Excavations

	Raman, K. V.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 394-401

44 .	Some Aspects of Dravidian Architecture and Sculpture and their Impact on Ceylon

	Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (2. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting)
	Pages : 427-431

45 .	Some Aspects of Manikkavasagar's Theology

	Keller, Carl Albert
	Category : Part I - Literature (2. Bhakti Poetry)
	Pages : 55-63

46 .	Some Contacts and Comparisons between the Ancient Near East and the Indus Valley Civilization

	Crown, Alan David
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 379-386

47 .	Some Unusual Characters used in Tamil Printing in Ceylon during Dutch Times

	Balasingam, Coomaraswamy
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (2. Printing)
	Pages : 528-530

48 .	South India in Old-Javanese and Sanskrit Inscriptions

	Sarkar, Himansu Bhusan
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (6. External Relations)
	Pages : 353-364

49 .	T. V. K.'s Contribution to the Labour Movement in South India

	Visswanathan, E. Sa
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 267-274

50 .	Tamil Dialect Notes: 2a, Raappaari - The Night Singer

	Shanmugampillai, M. (Muthu Shanmugan)
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (3. Post-Imperial and Modern Periods)
	Pages : 275-279

51 .	Tamil Heroic Poetry - A Comparative Study

	Kailasapathy, Kanagasabapathy
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 152-157

52 .	Tamil Migrations to Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1853-1883

	Thani Nayagam, Xavier S.
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (6. External Relations)
	Pages : 369-376

53 .	Temple Inscriptions and Music

	Ramachandran, T. N.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (4. Music)
	Pages : 474-479

54 .	The Application of Physics to Archæological Investigation

	Paramasivan, S.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 405-409

55 .	The Art of Painting of the Tamils from the Sangam Age to the Age of Kampan

	Trivikrama Narayanan
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (2. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting)
	Pages : 434-440

56 .	The Changing Positions of Two Tamil Groups in Western Malaya

	Clarence, Elmer Glick
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (5. Malaysia and Burma)
	Pages : 333-340

57 .	The Court of the Ariya Chakravartis

	Tambiah, Henry Wijeyakone
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 303-306

58 .	The Historical Novel of the Mid-Century

	Leo, Hayacinth
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 130-135

59 .	The Indian Tamil Immigrant Labourer and Constitutional Reform in Ceylon : A Brief Survey

	Bastiampillai, Bertram
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (4. Ceylon)
	Pages : 315-323

60 .	The Koravai–A Folk Custom of the Ceylon Tamil Reminiscent of the Art of the Sangam Age

	Raghavan, M. D.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (3. Dance and Drama)
	Pages : 450-452

61 .	The Lost Decades of Patirruppattu

	Marr, John Ralston
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 19-24

62 .	The Monsoon in Ancient Tamil and Indo-Aryan Poetry

	Hart, George Luzerne
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 162-167

63 .	The Origin and Evolution of the Tamil, Vatteluttu and Grantha Scripts

	Nagaswamy, R.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (1. Archaeology and Epigraphy)
	Pages : 410-415

64 .	The Other Harmony : a Study of Bharati's Prose Writings

	Vijayabharathi, S.
	Category : Part I - Literature (4. Prose)
	Pages : 116-121

65 .	The Poetry of Subramanya Bharati, a Manifestation of New Tendencies in the Development of Indian Literature

	Chelyshev, Eugene Petrovich
	Category : Part I - Literature (3. Modern Poetry)
	Pages : 89-96

66 .	The Power Structure of the Chola Rule

	Karashima, Noboru
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (2. The Period of Empires)
	Pages : 233-238

67 .	The Psychological Symbolism of Paalai in Kutunhthokai

	Lalitha, Sambamoorthy
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 25-33

68 .	The Regional Concept in Geography and the Classification of Land in the Ancient Tamil Country

	Selvanayagam, Somasundaram
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (1. Sangam Period)
	Pages : 219-225

69 .	The Role of Dance Sculptures in Tamilnad

	Subramanyam, Padma
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (3. Dance and Drama)
	Pages : 441-449

70 .	The Rşyaśộnga Story - a Dravidian Rain Myth

	Berger, Hermann
	Category : Part I - Literature (5. Comparative Literature)
	Pages : 158-161

71 .	The Structural Pattern of two Traditional Narratives in Tamil

	Hameed, K. P. S.
	Category : Part I - Literature (7. Folk Literature)
	Pages : 196-206

72 .	The Structural Pattern of two Traditional Social Themes in Tamil Folk Ballads

	Vanamamalai, N
	Category : Part I - Literature (7. Folk Literature)
	Pages : 190-195

73 .	The Tamil City in Antiquity : Some Preliminary Views

	Ramani, R
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (1. Sangam Period)
	Pages : 213-218

74 .	The Tamil Ideals of Female Beauty

	Devapoopathy, Nadarajah
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 34-40

75 .	Theevaaram Verses in Pallava-Chola-Grantha Script

	Singaravelu, Sachitanantham
	Category : Part I - Literature (2. Bhakti Poetry)
	Pages : 70-78

76 .	Tradition in Early Tamil Poetry

	Chelvanayakam, V.
	Category : Part I - Literature (1. Classical Poetry)
	Pages : 3-8

77 .	Traditional Society and Karnatic Music

	Ries, R. E.
	Category : Part III - Archaeology and the Arts (4. Music)
	Pages : 466-473

78 .	Treatment of kiil vaayu (Chronic Arthritis) Joint Diseases

	Uthamaroyan, C. S.
	Category : Part IV - Science and Technology (3. Medicine)
	Pages : 535-540

79 .	Treatment of Nature in Thiruvaaymozhi

	Irudayam, Michael S.
	Category : Part I - Literature (2. Bhakti Poetry)
	Pages : 64-69

80 .	Verci : or the First Stage of War during the Sangam Period

	Arunachalam, P.
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (1. Sangam Period)
	Pages : 207-212

81 .	Village and Temple Administration in the Allur Inscriptions

	Loganayagy Nannithamby
	Category : Part II - History and Social Studies (2. The Period of Empires)
	Pages : 245-250

82 .	Western Influence in Modern Tamil Poetry

	Rajasundaram, C. V.
	Category : Part I - Literature (3. Modern Poetry)
	Pages : 97-106

Aiyappan, Aiynapalli ( 1 )	Padmanabhan, N. ( 1 )
Arasaratnam, Sinnappah ( 1 )	Paramasivan, S. ( 1 )
Arunachalam, P. ( 1 )	Raghavan, M. D. ( 1 )
Asher, R. E. ( 1 )	Rajagopalan, N. V. ( 1 )
Balasingam, Coomaraswamy ( 1 )	Rajamanickam, S ( 1 )
Bastiampillai, Bertram ( 1 )	Rajasundaram, C. V. ( 1 )
Benisti, Mireille ( 1 )	Ramachandran, T. N. ( 1 )
Berger, Hermann ( 1 )	Ramachandran, V. N. ( 1 )
Byrski, Christopher M ( 1 )	Raman, K. V. ( 1 )
Chelvanayakam, V. ( 1 )	Ramani, R ( 1 )
Chelyshev, Eugene Petrovich ( 1 )	Ries, R. E. ( 1 )
Clarence, Elmer Glick ( 1 )	Sambamoorthy, P. ( 1 )
Crown, Alan David ( 1 )	Samy, P. L. ( 1 )
Devapoopathy, Nadarajah ( 1 )	Sarkar, Himansu Bhusan ( 1 )
Diskul, M. C. Subhadradis ( 1 )	Selvanayagam, Somasundaram ( 1 )
Dorai Rangaswamy M. A. ( 1 )	Shankara Narayanan, David ( 1 )
Fonseka, H. N. C. ( 1 )	Shanmugampillai, M. (Muthu Shanmugan) ( 1 )
Hameed, K. P. S. ( 1 )	Shanmugasundaram, G ( 1 )
Hart, George Luzerne ( 2 )	Shanmugavelu, M. ( 1 )
Huang, Da-Show ( 1 )	Shyamala, Balakrishnan ( 1 )
Hwa, Cheng Sok ( 1 )	Singaravelu, Sachitanantham ( 1 )
Irudayam, Michael S. ( 1 )	Stein, Burton ( 1 )
Joseph, P. ( 1 )	Subramanyam, Padma ( 1 )
Kailasapathy, Kanagasabapathy ( 1 )	Tambiah, Henry Wijeyakone ( 2 )
Kamaladevi, Chattopadhyay ( 1 )	Thananjayarajasingham, Sabaratnasingham ( 2 )
Karashima, Noboru ( 1 )	Thani Nayagam, Xavier S. ( 1 )
Keller, Carl Albert ( 1 )	Thillainathan, Sinnathamby ( 1 )
Lalitha, Sambamoorthy ( 1 )	Thirugnanasambandhan, P. ( 1 )
Lee, Orient ( 1 )	Trivikrama Narayanan ( 1 )
Leo, Hayacinth ( 1 )	Uthamaroyan, C. S. ( 1 )
Loganayagy Nannithamby ( 2 )	Uwise, Mahamood Mohamed ( 1 )
Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja ( 1 )	Vanamamalai, N ( 2 )
Maheswari Mahadeva ( 1 )	Velupillai, A. ( 1 )
Manual Raj, David J. ( 1 )	Venugopal, P. M. ( 1 )
Marr, John Ralston ( 1 )	Vijayabharathi, S. ( 1 )
Murugesa Mudaliar, N. ( 1 )	Visswanathan, E. Sa ( 2 )
Nagaswamy, R. ( 1 )	Vithiananthan, S. ( 1 )
Owen, Hugh Francis ( 1 )	Wicki, Joseph Anton ( 1 )