Collection (3 items, 3 Śaiva works) Emmanuel FRANCISCNRS, CEIAS UMR 8564, EHESS/CNRS TST Project 2023 Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits Indien 30 Tamoul 30Ariel 127c/45 https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc103407h

This palm-leaf bundle, a composite manuscript, entitled Caivam Nāṅku on its additional title page, contains between the two woodcovers: The Kantarantāti<pc>-</pc>y<pc>-</pc>urai (text by Aruṇakirinātar and commentary interspersed) (Indien 30a). Tiruppātiriveṇpā<pc>-</pc>v<pc>-</pc>urai (text and commentary interspersed) (Indien 30b). Tiruvācakam stanzas (Indien 30c).

<term xml:lang="en">Title Page (additional)</term> {1} + 38 + 48 + {3} (U1 + Indien 30a + Indien 30b + Indien 30c). the front cover.1 folio = Title Page (additional). No foliation. Verso blank. Shelfmark on recto. This title page does not correspond to the content of the bundle: the Piḷḷaiyār Akaval and the Caravaṇapavaṉ Tōttiram are not found.the back cover.Excellent state of preservation. Very few bore holes caused by insects. Ariel's title page scribe. Shelfmark c/45 in black ink (f[1]r). List of texts in the bundle (entitled caivam mūṉṟunāṅku). The fourth and final title (column 3) appears to have been added after the number of texts counted in the bundle had been corrected from 3 to 4 (column 1). See details below.

Pinewood covers apparently fabricated in the BnF.

 No internal date. Not after 1854, since part of the collection of Édouard Ariel (1818-1854), bequeathed in 1855 to the Société Asiatique, Paris (Rosny 1868). South India, Tamil Nadu.

Owned by Édouard Ariel (1818-1854). Bequeathed by Édouard Ariel to Société Asiatique (Rosny 1868, p. 177).

Received, August 1st, 1866, from the Société Asiatique. — See BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Inventaire 7 = dons : manuscrits et imprimés documentaires, 1848-1895, n° 1 à 3306: no. 1192.

 Cabaton, Antoine. 1912. Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits indiens, indo-chinois & malayo-polynésiens. Bibliothèque nationale. Département des manuscrits. Paris: E. Leroux. — See p. 8, no. 30.Rosny, Léon de. 1868. “La bibliothèque tamoule de M. Ariel, de Pondichéry.” In: Variétés orientales (pp. 177‒224). Paris: Maisonneuve.Vinson, Julien. 1868. Manuscrits tamouls. Proofreadings of the catalogue for Tamoul 1-204 (old shelfmark). Printed by the atelier oriental de l’Imprimerie nationale. BnF “4-IMPROR-77 (B)”. — The same proofreadings with black ink handwritten corrections are found in Vinson et al. (1866-, f1-f49). — See p. 11, no. 30.

General ― Unmarked length of ō and ē supplied. Unmarked puḷḷi supplied. Conjectural reading (text unclear) between parentheses. Supplied reading (text lost) between square brackets. Alternative readings separated by slash. In transliteration ― Unmarked elided overshort u supplied as an apostrophe. Uppercase for initial vowels. Symbols between curly brackets. Abbreviations ― c = column; f = folio; lf = library foliation; lm = left margin; r = recto; rm = right margin; u / U followed by a number = unit (codicological and/or textual); v = verso.

This catalogue entry has been redacted by Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS, CEIAS UMR 8564, EHESS/CNRS) for the research program Texts Surrounding Texts (TST, FRAL 2018, ANR/DFG). Version 1, May 2020. Converted from EAD to TEI by Charles LI.Updated to TST encoding conventions by Emmanuel FRANCIS. veṟṟi vēl uṟṟa tuṇai caivam mūṉṟu nāṅku kantarantāti-y-urai piḷḷaiyār akaval caravaṇapavaṉ tōttiram tiruppātiri veṇpā-v-urai