LIST OF ANCIENT TAMIL

LITARATURE - TRANSLATED IN
ENGLISH
1. The Chronology Of The Early Tamils – Based On The Synchronistic Tables Of Their Kings,
Chieftains And Poets Appearing In The Sangam Literature – Sivaraja Pillai
2. The Poems of Ancient Tamil – Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts – George L. Hart
3. The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom – George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz
4. Poets of the Tamil Anthologies – Ancient Poems of Love and War – George L. Hart
5. The Interior Landscape, Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology – A.K. Ramanujam
6. The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India – Kamil Zvelebil
7. Landscape and Poetry – A study of nature in Classical Tamil Poetry – Xavier Thani Nayagam
8. Tamil Heroic Poetry – K. Kailasapathy
9. Tholkappiyam  -  English Translation by S. Ilakkuvanar
10. Tamil Brahmi Inscriptions of the Sangam Age – Iravatham Mahadevan
11. The Eight Anthologies: A study in Early Tamil Literature – John Ralston Marr
12. Tamil Heroic Poems – G. U. Pope
13. Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil – A.
K. Ramanujan
14. Kuruntokai – Shanmugam Pillai and David E. Ludden
15. Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C. – Pre 5th/6th Century A.D. – V. S. Rajam
16. Tolkappiyam: The Earliest Extant Tamil Grammar – Porulathikaram – Tamil Poetics – P.S.
Subrahmanya Sastri
17. Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics – Takanobu Takahashi
18. A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary – Burrow T. and Emeneau M.B.
19. Tamil Literature: Sangam literature, Tamil Sangams, Kumari Kandam, Tolkappiyam, Sangam
landscape, Chola literature, Tamil historical novels, Tamil language, Tamil history from Sangam
literature – Frederic P. Miller
20. Tamil Poetry Through the Ages – Ettuthokai – The Eight Anthologies, Volume I – Dr. Shu
Hikosaka and Dr. G. John Samuel
21. History of Tamil Language and Literature – S. Vaiyapuri Pillai
22. A Critical Study of Kuruntokai – T. Leelavathy
23. Marutam – An Aspect of Love in Tamil Literature – V.T. Manickam
24. A Critical Study of Paripadal – R. Sarangapani
25. Narrinai in its Historical Setting – K.K. Pillai
26. Palaittinai in Sangam Literature – R. K. Nagu
27. The Tamil Flood Myths and the Cangam Legends – David Shulman
28. Fine Arts and Crafts in Pattuppattu and Ettuttokai – S. Vaithilingam
29. A Tamil Reader – Introducing Sangam Literature – J. Vacek and S.V. Subramanian
30. Kalithokai in English – Institute of Asian Studies
31. Tamil Love Poetry – The Five Hundred Short Poems of Ainkurunuru – Martha Ann Selby
32. Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India – Martha Ann Selby
and Indra Viswanathan Peterson
33. Grow Long Blessed Night – Love poems from classical India – Martha Ann Selby
34. Tholkappiyam – English Translation by E. S. Varadaraja Iyer
35.  The study of Stolen Love – A Translation of Kalaviyal Enra Iraiyanar Akapporul with Commentary
by Nakkirar – David C. Buck and K. Paramisavam.
36. Literary Techniques in Old Tamil Cankam Poetry: The Kuruntokai – Eva Wilden
37. Tamil Verse in Translation – P.N. Appuswami
38. The treatment of Nature in Sangam Literature (Ancient Tamil Literature) – M. Varadarajan
39. Chieftains of the Sangam Age – K. D. Thirunavukarasu
40. A Word Index for Cangam Literature – Thomas Lehmann and Thomas Malten
41. The Squirrel in the Courtyard – Sangam Tamil Lyrics Translation – A.V. Subramaniam
42.  Ancient to Medieval South Indian Society in Transition – Noboru Karashima
43. Introduction to the historical grammar of the Tamil language – Kamil Zvelebil, J. Vacek
44. Dravidian languages – Mikhail Sergeevich Andronov
45. Lexicon of Tamil Literature – Kamil Zvelebil
46. Introduction to the Historical Grammar of the Tamil Tongue – Kamil Zvelebil
47. Literary Conventions in Akam Poetry – Kamil Zvelebil
48. Imagining a place for Buddhism: Literary culture and Religious community in Tamil speaking
South India – Anne E. Monius – (This is a scholarly work, dealing specifically with Manimekalai and
Viracoliyam, & the Buddhist community at that time)
49. Tamil Grammar – Mikhail Sergeevich Andronov
50. Gift of Tamil – Translations of Tamil Literature -  Norman Cutler
51. The Tamil Auxillary Verb System – Sanford B. Steever
52. Tholkappiyam – English Translation by P. S. Subrahmanya Sastry
53. The Tamil Concept of Love in Ahattinai. By V. Sp. Manickam, 1962. The South Indian Saiva
Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, Tinnevelly. 339 pages
54. Akananuru: The Akam four  hundred. By A. Dhakshinamurthy, 1999. Bharathidasan University.
Three volumes.
55. Pattupattu: Ten Tamil Idylls. By J.V. Chelliah, 1985. Tamil University Thanjavur. 370 pages
56. Tradition and Talent in Cankam Poetry. By RM. Periakaruppan, 2010. Bharathidasan University.
330 pages
57. Ahananuru in its Historical Setting. By C.E. Ramachandran, 1974. University of Madras. 148
pages
58. Some Philosophical Concepts in Purananuru. By P.K. Sundaram, 1979. University of Madras.
140  pages
59. Kurunthogai. By R. Balakrishna Mudaliyar. 2009. Bharathidasan University. 406 pages
60. Narrinai: An Anthology of Armour. 1989. By A.V. Subramanian. Dept. of Tamil Development and
Culture, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. 448 pages
61.The Narrinai Four Hundred. By A. Dakshinamurthy. 2001. International Institute of Tamil Studies,
Chennai. 838 pages
62. Six long poems from Sangam Tamil. By N. Raghunathan, 1997. International Institute of Tamil
Studies, Chennai. 118 pages
63. Four Long Poems from Sangam Tamil. 2000. Editor: Ramar Ilango. 2000. International Institute of
Tamil Studies, Chennai. 96 pages
64. Kuruntokai: a Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Kuruntokai – Eva Wilden
65. Kurunthokai: Translated by Robert Butler, 2010
66. Pattuppāttu in English, Dr. A. Dakshinamurthy, SRM University, 2012
67. Love in Sanskrit and Tamil Literature, Devapoopathy Nadarajah, Motilal Bansaridass Publishers,
1994
68. Paripadal, K.G. Seshadri, Institue of Asian Studies, Chennai, 1996
69. Kurinjippattu, Muttollayiram, P.N. Appuswami, International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1997
70. Kalittokai in English, Dr. V. Murugan, Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai, 1999
71. The River Speaks – Vaiyai Poems from Paripadal, V. N. Muthukumar and Elizabeth Rani Segran,
Penguin Classics, 2012
72. Love Stands Alone – Selections from Sangam Poetry, M.L. Thangappa, Penguin Books, 2010
73. Naṟṟinai – Text and Translation, N. Kandasamy, Institut Francais De Pondichery, 2008
74. Tolkāppiyam in English, Dr. V. Murugan, Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai, 2001
75. The Ten Decads, A. V. Subramanian, Tamil Nadu Text Book Society, 1980