To: "Min Nuul"  
From: "Kannan" 
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 11:09:55 +0100 
Subject: [e-suvadi] Travel Diary 03.02.0 
Reply-to: [email protected] 
 
Dear Suvadians:

Today turned out to be quite a lucky day! I was allowed to scan some
old printed books (taken from palm leaf manuscripts) and some palm leaf
manuscripts from a library that never allowed such practices some
years before. It took some time before I could finally achieve my goal,
a week? two weeks? It does not matter!

1) I got an interesting book called 'kappal sathiram' with an elaborate
commentary.

2) Buvanakosam palm leaf MS dealing with cosmology according to
Saiva tradition.

3) Kothai naachiar talattu - an edition that is complete. Some may
remember
that I introduced this e-book in PM a year back. Several lines were
missing
from the Alwartirunagari edition. But this edition is complete with 
full
text.

4) ekkalakkaNNi - a beautiful poetry in line with Tayumanavars famous
poems.
Author unknown.

5) nammazvar thallattu - palm leaf manuscript .

I tried my best to scan 'vaNa satiram' of the legendary Bogar! Alas! I
was
not permited to do so. May be more persuation is needed or permission
from higher authorities wanted. Let me try.

I plan to visit Indian Institute of Science from Tuesday and you will 
be
informed
about the progress.

The five manuscripts mentioned above will appear as e-book in our
website
in the coming days.

anpuTan
Kannan

ps. check out the photo :-)



To: [email protected] 
From:  "kra narasiah"  
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 04:11:15 -0800 (PST) 
Subject: Re: [e-suvadi] Travel Diary 03.02.0 
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dear kannan
is the kappal saathiram a translation of Yukti Kalpa
Taru a treatise on ship building by Boja Raja,
believed to be the first ever written book on
shipbuilding and copy available in Calcutta Sanskrit
library? i have quoted this in my book "Kadalodi"

narasiah