Tamil Texts Library from Tamil Virtual University website

[N. Ganesan]

Dear Dr. Nakkeeran,

 

Vanakkam. Today we saw the TVU library available in Unicode.

A great achievement and model for the future of TN Govt. websites.

Hope the new Govt. that has assumed power recently in Tamil Nadu

produces its websites in Tamil language.

 

For reading classical Tamil books:

http://218.248.16.19/slet/l0100/index.jsp

 

As an example, let us take TirukkuRaL:

http://218.248.16.19/library/l2100/html/l2100ind.htm?book_id=31

 

Are these URLs permanent with numbers,

or, they are going to change?

say something like:

http://tamilvu.org/texts/tirukkural.htm

 

If done with a system, and with a good transliteration

in English titles, it will be very easy to quote.

 

One point on transliteration. Tamil text, Manimekalai,

in its title pages in TVU site was "manimegalai".

Please check with experts like Prof. Deivasundarm, University

of Madras on the need to write the intervocalical க

as -ka- (& not as "ga"). So, for example,

for the only Buddhist epic in Tamil, a TVU url can be:

http://tamilvu.org/texts/manimekalai.htm

 

Please let us know.

 

Thanks,

N. Ganesan