Progression during SoSe-2025

The class takes place on Thursdays from 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Fourth Meeting (01.05.2025): MEETING falls because of holiday
  5. 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).
  6. Sixth Meeting (15.05.2025): MEETING falls because of LEXICOGRAPHY conference ("Putting words ...")
  7. 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).
  8. 29.05.2025 falls in a University holiday week
  9. 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)
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. fourteenth Meeting (17.07.2025) ((the meeting is cancelled because of competing family obligations in France))