Progression during SoSe-2025
The class takes place on Thursdays from 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
- First Meeting (10.04.2025): reading of தொல்காப்பியம் சொல்லதிகாரம் இடையியல் with Cēṉāvaraiyar's commentary, starting at TC_251c, which is found on p.200, inside the 1934 edition.
- Second Meeting (17.04.2025): IDEM: starting at TC_252c, which is found on p.200-201, inside this online PDF file [1934 edition] and also on line 1 of image 240 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS.
- Third Meeting (24.04.2025): IDEM: starting at TC_253c, which is found on p.201, inside this online PDF file [1934 edition]) and also on line 7 of image 240 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS.
- Fourth Meeting (01.05.2025): MEETING falls because of holiday
- Fifth Meeting (08.05.2025): Going back to reading page 198 (part of the commentary to TC250c) and then starting at TC_254c, which is found on p.201, inside the 1934 edition [and also on line 1 of image 241 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS] (EXCEPT FOR the first four glyphs which are located on the last line of image 240).
- Sixth Meeting (15.05.2025): MEETING falls because of LEXICOGRAPHY conference ("Putting words ...")
- seventh Meeting (22.05.2025): finishing TC_254c, and then starting TC_255c, which is found on p.202, inside this online PDF file [1934 edition]) and also on in the second half of line 6 of image 241 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS (continuing on image 242).
- 29.05.2025 falls in a University holiday week
- eighth Meeting (05.06.2025): continuing TC_256c, for which only the first value was explained in the seventh meeting. TC_256c is found on p.203, inside this online PDF file [1934 edition] and also on images 242 and 243 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS (starting at the end of line 10 in image 242). After reading TC_256c, the sūtra TC_257c was also read. The reading took place via Zoom (between Hamburg and Bressuire, where JLC was)
- ninth Meeting (12.06.2025): reading TC_258c, which is found on page 204 of this online PDF file [1934 edition] and also on image 244 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS (starting in the second half of line 1 in image 244). We also read TC_259c and TC_260c.
- tenth Meeting (19.06.2025): reading TC_261c, which is found on page 205 of the 1934 edition and also on image 245 of this Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS (starting near the middle of line 3 in image 245, after number "௰ ௨",
which signals the end of the commentary for the previous cūttiram). We read up to TC263c.
- eleventh Meeting (26.06.2025): starting to read at TC_264c, which is found on page 206 of the 1934 edition and also on line 2 of image 246, after number "௰ ௫", above the second hole, inside the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS, we read up to TC267c.
- twelfth Meeting (03.07.2025): reading TC_268c, which is found on page 207 of the 1934 edition and also on line 4 of image 247, after number "௰ ௯", on the right side of the first hole, inside the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS, we read up to TC270c, although we do not manage to answer all the ஐயம், and decide to read more of it next time.
- thirteenth Meeting (10.07.2025). Finishing to read TC270c, and then continuing with TC271c, which is found on p. 208 of the 1934 edition and also on line 7 of image 248, after number "௨ ௨", on the left side of the first hole, inside the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai palm-leaf MS, we manage to finish TC271c, also making incursions into TE61i. After that, we start to read TC272c, but do not finish.
- fourteenth Meeting (17.07.2025) ((the meeting is cancelled because of competing family obligations in France))