Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

Blessings in Tamil Manuscripts

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This paper is a survey of blessings, that is, short prose, often formulaic, phrases attracting auspiciousness, found in various places in Tamil manuscripts, mainly from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This survey is based on the descriptions made and encoded for the TST project. It explores the various formulae attested, their religious obedience, their location in the manuscripts as well as pictorial blessings.

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hal-05272707 , version 1 (19-01-2026)

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Emmanuel Francis. Blessings in Tamil Manuscripts. Emmanuel Francis (dir.); Eva Wilden (dir.). South-Indian Manuscripts in Hamburg and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance, TST project (ANR & DFG, 2019-2023), 17, Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, pp.26-56, 2025, INDIAN AND TIBETAN STUDIES, 978-3-945151-16-7. ⟨hal-05272707⟩
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