A NEW LIBRARY ACQUISITION

A NEW LIBRARY ACQUISITION

UW libraries has recently acquired the following:

Digital Tēvāram. Kaṇiṉit Tēvāram. (CD-ROM)

(A collection of 800 Tamil hymns to Siva)

Digital Tēvāram. Kaṇiṉit Tēvāram. V. M. Subramanya Aiyar, Jean-Luc Chevillard, S.A.S. Sarma. Collection Indologie n° 103, IFP / EFEO, 2007 [CD-ROM]

The “Digital Tēvaram” is a multifeature CD-ROM edition of a collection of 800 Tamil hymns to Śiva, possibly dating back to the 7th and 8th centuries, attributed to three authors (Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar), traditionally called Tēvaram, and constituting the initial part of the Tamil Saiva Scriptures. This electronic edition of the Tamil text, furnished with many maps, MP3 audio files and a complete English rendering by the late V.M. Subrahmanya Ayyar (1906-1981), combines the features of the two traditional book-forms of Tēvāram:

1. arrangement according to musical modes (pan-s), as in panmurai editions of Tēvāram, and 2. arrangement according to sites (stalams), as in talamu ṟai editions. It incorporates a concordance, and can be used as a dictionary of Tēvāram