The Tamil Veda: Pillan's Interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli, John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan's 1989 study from the University of Chicago Press, is a scholarly translation and study of a Srivaisnava commentary by two established scholars of South Asian religion with direct command of the Tamil source text. Its strength is that direct textual and commentarial command. Its limit is that it focuses on one specific commentary within a much larger devotional literature; broader claims about the Tamil Veda tradition as a whole should draw on wider scholarship as well.
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The Tamil Veda, by John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1989, is a scholarly translation and study by two established scholars with direct command of the Tamil source text, treated at the top tier as peer reviewed academic press scholarship. NotesScholarly study and translation of Pillan's commentary on the Tiruvaymoli, University of Chicago Press, 1989.
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AuthorJohn Carman and Vasudha Narayanan
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year1989
Source Typeacademic monograph
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