Select Books on Tamil Religion

Posted By kalyan on April 9, 2008

  • Subbaiah, Ganapathy
    Roots of Tamil religious thought
    Pondicherry Inst. of Linguistics and Culture, Pondicherrry, 1991
    ISBN: 8185452024 :

  • Clothey, Fred W.
    Quiescence and Passion, the Vision of Arunakiri, Tamil mystic
    Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1984

  • V. Kantacami
    Thamizh nattin thala varalArukaLum paNpAttu cinnangkaLum
    Palaniappa brothers, Chennai, 1983

  • Jeyachandrun, A.V
    The Madurai Temple Complex: with special reference to literature and legends
    Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1985

  • Indira Viswanathan Peterson
    Poems to Siva: the Hymns of the Tamil Saints: tEvAram
    Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J., 1989

  • R. Nagaswamy
    Siva bhakti
    Navrang Publishers, New Delhi, 1989

  • T.B. Siddalingaiah
    Origin and Development of saiva siddhantha upto 14th Century
    Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1979

  • Iracamaanickanaar, Ma
    The development of Saivism in South India, A.D 300 -1300
    Dharmapuram Adhinam Publication 554, Dharmapuram

  • Siddhanthashastree, Rabindra Kumar
    Saivism through the ages
    Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1974

  • Alain Danielou
    Shiva and Dionysus: the religion of nature and Eros
    Inner Traditions International, New York, 1984 (ISBN: 0892810572)

  • Pandit, Moti Lal
    Saivism: a religio-philosophical history
    Theological research and communication Inst., New Delhi, 1987

  • Vajravelu Mudaliar, K
    Sivajnana mapadiyam
    Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai,1985

  • N. Jagadeesan
    Collected Papers on Tamil Vaishnavism
    Ennes Publications, Madurai, 1989

  • N. Jagadeesan
    History of Sri Vaishnavism in the Tamil country: post-Ramanuja
    Koodal Publishers, Madurai, 1977

  • T.N. Vasudeva Rao
    Buddhism in the Tamil Country
    Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, 1979

  • K.S. Nagarajan
    Jain contribution to Tamil Culture
    Dhanraj Baid Jain College, Madras, 1977

  • M.S. Ramaswami Ayyangar; B. Seshagiri Rao
    Studies in South Indian Jainism
    Sri Satguru, New Delhi, 1982 (Sri Garib Das Oriental series no.4-5)

  • T.N. Ramachandran
    Thiruparuttikunram and its temples: with appendices on
    Jaina units of measurement and time, cosmology and classification of souls
    Madras Government Museum, Madras, 1934

  • Law, Bimala Churn
    India as described in early texts of Buddhism and Jainism
    Bharatiya Publ. House, Delhi, 1980

  • I. Hirudayam
    Christianity and Tamil Culture
    Univ. of Madras (Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Inst. for Adv. Study in Philosophy), Madras, 1977

  • Radha Thiagarajan
    A study of mysticism in thiruvachakam
    Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 1983

Based on a posting to soc.culture.tamil group by Shyamala Parameswaran in July 1994


in Tamil

  • kaNNadAcan
    arthamuLLa inthu matham- parts 1-3 (KP)
    thunpangkaLilirunthu viduthalai (KP)
    NYAnam pirantha kathai (KP)
    n^eNYkku n^immathi (KP)
    cukamAna cin^thanaikaL (KP)
    pOkam, rOkam, yOkam (KP)
    unnaiyE nii aRivAi (KP)

  • aNNA (Subramanian)
    Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Mutt,Mylapore, Chennai-600 004)
    sri dEvi pAkavatha cAram (parts 1-3,1980/1981)
    srimath pakavath kiithai (1992)
    sri krishNa karNamrutham (1992)
    sri lalithA tricathI sthOthram (1992)
    thEvi sthOthrangkaL (1992)

  • amman caththiya nAthan
    nalvazhi kAttum pakavath kiithai (arulam pathipaham, 1994)
    mANavarkaLukku kiithak kathaikaL (vairavan pathipaham, 1983)
    arththamuLLa Anmikac cinthanaikaL (aruLam pathipaham, 1993)
    sri rAkavEnthira makimai (aruLam pathipaham, 1993)

  • aRivoLi, a
    thirucci kOyilkaL (maNivAcakam, 1983)
    cennaik kOyilkaL (maNivAcakam, 1984)
    pazhani (maNivAcakam, 1991)
    kAci (maNivAcakam, 1985)
    thiruvArUr (maNivAcakam, 1983)
    kAngci kAmAtchi (maNivAcakam, 1983)
    atta viirattath thalangkaL (maNivAcakam, 1985)

  • cankarAccAriya cuvAmikaL
    aruL urai 1-101 (Anantha vikaTan, 1993)

  • rAmajayam
    inthumatha AcAra anushtAnangkaL (AP)
    ciirum ciRappum pera ciRan^tha yOcanaikaL (AP)
    arthamuLLa ponmozhikaL (AP)

  • krishnacAmi
    inthumatha upAkkiyAnam (AP)

  • rAthAkrishnan, em
    thennAttuk kOyilkaL -parts I-IV (AP)
    vadanAttuk kOyilkaL (AP)
    pAkavathak kathaikaL (AP)
    cukar kUriya kaNNan kathai (AP)
    panniru AzhwArkaL (AP)
    avathAramum kamparum (AP)
    pirkAla vaiNavam (AP)
    vaiNavamum thiiNdAmaiyum (AP)
    thamizhar viiram (AP)
    urimaiyum kadamaiyum (AP)
    ilangkaiyin kathai (AP)
    pAratha n^athikaL (AP)
    varalARRuk kathikaL (AP)
    kuRalin perumai (AP)

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