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A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the British Museum The Hindu tendency to construct arbitrary and exaggerated systems of chronology is fully shared by the Tamils, who assign the beginnings of their culture to a fabulous antiquity, and trace the progress of their literature through three successive Sanghanis or Academies. For the first two of the latter no historical basis can be found. As to the third, works are still extant which bear the names of several writers Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the British Museum The Hindu tendency to construct arbitrary and exaggerated systems of chronology is fully shared by the Tamils, who assign the beginnings of their culture to a fabulous antiquity, and trace the progress of their literature through three successive Sanghanis or Academies. For the first two of the latter no historical basis can be found. As to the third, works are still extant which bear the names of several writers traditionally associated with it; but there seems to be no sufficient ground to accept the legend which has grouped together their names as those of contemporaries, especially as Nakkira Dévar, the most prominent poet of the Third Sangham, can hardly be assigned to a date earlier than the fifth or sixth century, whilst there are reasons for believing that the Kural, the famous collection of ethical and erotic verses attributed to the somewhat legendary Tiru-valluvar (popularly believed to have been a Paraiyar priest, but possibly a Jain), may have been composed some three centuries earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.
Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the British Museum The Hindu tendency to construct arbitrary and exaggerated systems of chronology is fully shared by the Tamils, who assign the beginnings of their culture to a fabulous antiquity, and trace the progress of their literature through three successive Sanghanis or Academies. For the first two of the latter no historical basis can be found. As to the third, works are still extant which bear the names of several writers Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the British Museum The Hindu tendency to construct arbitrary and exaggerated systems of chronology is fully shared by the Tamils, who assign the beginnings of their culture to a fabulous antiquity, and trace the progress of their literature through three successive Sanghanis or Academies. For the first two of the latter no historical basis can be found. As to the third, works are still extant which bear the names of several writers traditionally associated with it; but there seems to be no sufficient ground to accept the legend which has grouped together their names as those of contemporaries, especially as Nakkira Dévar, the most prominent poet of the Third Sangham, can hardly be assigned to a date earlier than the fifth or sixth century, whilst there are reasons for believing that the Kural, the famous collection of ethical and erotic verses attributed to the somewhat legendary Tiru-valluvar (popularly believed to have been a Paraiyar priest, but possibly a Jain), may have been composed some three centuries earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.
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