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Shilajit or mumijo, Mohave lava tube, 2018. Shilajit (Sanskrit: शिलाजीत; lit. ' conqueror of mountain ', 'conqueror of the rocks'), salajeet (Urdu: سلاجیت), mumijo or mumlayi or mumie [1] is an organic-mineral product of predominantly biological origin, formed at high altitudes of stony mountains, in sheltered crevices and cave.
Two catalogues on Miscellaneous books, two catalogues on newspapers and magazines and one catalogue about English books are found. Information pertaining to the year of the work is found in the catalogue. The readers who opt to come and visit the library can get two books at a time. Necessary facilities are available for reading and taking notes.
Tamil copper-plate inscriptions are copper-plate records of grants of villages, plots of cultivable lands or other privileges to private individuals or public institutions by the members of the various South Indian royal dynasties. [1] The study of these inscriptions has been especially important in reconstructing the history of Tamil Nadu. [2]
The Madurai project commenced with the utilization of Inaimadhi and Mayilai Tamil fonts. However, starting from 1999, mobile phones have been manufactured using the Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) within the Tamil-language Tamil database. These mobile phones are distributed on web pages and in PDF format.
The book gave birth to a new literary genre and Tamil prose began to be recognized as an increasingly important part of the language. One can see the style of any Tamil author in this novel. Aabathukidamaana Apavaadham -or- Kamalaambaal Charithram is written by Rajam Iyer from Vathalakundu in the later part of the 19th century is the first ...
Saraswathi Mahal Library, also called Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswathi Mahal Library is a library located in Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu, India.It is one of the oldest subsisting libraries in Asia [1] established during 16th century by the Nayak kings of Thanjavur and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Tamil and Sanskrit and a few other ...
From 1946 till his death in 1961 he was the Head of the Tamil department. [2] [4] In 1955, he won the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his series of essays titled Tamil inbam. [5] In 1957, he was awarded a D. Litt degree (honoris causa). Sethu pillai was a scholar of Tamil and wrote more than twenty five books.
A page from the first printed Tamil book - Luso-Tamil Catechism (Cartilha) printed in Lisbon in 1554 CE. It was rediscovered by Thaninayagam in the 1950s. Born as Xavier Nicholas Stanislaus, he later came to be called as Xavier Stanislaus Thaninayagam (his last name is often written as two words - Thani Nayagam) and also respectfully as "Thaninayagam Adigal".