The Manipravalam Version of the Bhagavadgītā by K. Śrīnivāsan in Ms GOML R3507 (Studies in Late Tamil Manipravalam Literature 4).
Manuscript R3507 of the Government Oriental Manuscript Library of Chennai is a remarkable artefact. It contains the hitherto only known copy of a prose version (vacaṉam) of the Bhagavadgītā composed by Kariccaṅkāl Śrīnivāsan, a Śrivaiṣṇava author who translated into Manipravalam a number of Sanskrit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 553 - 574 |
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