Tamils

This source names Tamils directly: "Paul Younger's article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1980, pages 493 to 517, is peer-reviewed academic scholarship."

This source names Tamils directly: "Aastha TV, whose name means faith in Hindi, is a Hindu devotional television network launched in 2000 by Dubai based businessman Kirit C."

This source names Tamils directly: "Angalamman, also called Angala Parameswari, is a fierce Tamil village goddess whose iconography and cult center on cremation grounds and the destruction of evil rather than on a benign or maternal..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Ayyanar is a Tamil guardian god charged with protecting a village and its boundaries, typically stationed at the settlement's edge in a shrine flanked by large terracotta horse and elephant statues..."

The Tamils.

Classical Tamil is the literary language of the Sangam poems and the devotional hymns.

This source names Tamils directly: "Vijaya Nagarajan's Feeding a Thousand Souls, Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India, An Exploration of the Kolam, published by Oxford University Press in 2018, is a scholarly study of the kolam, the..."

Tamil Shaivism and the Bhakti hymns of the Alvars and Nayanars are Tamil-language Hindu traditions.

This source names Tamils directly: "Hymns for the Drowning, A."

This source names Tamils directly: "The Kamika Agama is one of the twenty eight Shaiva Siddhanta Agamas, the scriptural canon that Shaiva Siddhanta tradition holds to have been revealed by Shiva, and it is counted among the earliest..."

This source names Tamils directly: "The kolam is the threshold drawing of Tamil Nadu: designs in rice flour laid by women at dawn on the swept, water-sprinkled ground before the house door, grown around a grid of dots called pulli."

This source names Tamils directly: "LawBeat's report, byline Salil Tiwari, of a Madras High Court order directing Tamil Nadu's HR&CE Department to disclose the Meenakshi Amman Temple's property, revenue and encroachment details..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Paula Richman is a scholar of South Asian religious literature, and this University of California Press volume is an edited academic collection she assembled, bringing together specialists to..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Mariamman is the most widely worshipped village goddess of Tamil Nadu and the wider Tamil speaking world, including the Tamil diaspora of Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Caribbean."

This source names Tamils directly: "Pattini is chief among the guardian deities of the Sinhala Buddhist pantheon of Sri Lanka, venerated for her power to cure epidemic disease and protect chastity and fertility."

This source names Tamils directly: "Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a scholar of Tamil literature and religion, and this Princeton University Press book is her scholarly study and translation of the Tevaram, the devotional hymns of the..."

This source names Tamils directly: "The Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, on an island in the Kaveri River near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, is the largest Hindu temple complex still in active worship anywhere, and is counted as..."

The Tamils.

This source names Tamils directly: "This bronze sculpture depicts Shiva as Nataraja, the Lord of Dance, performing the anandatandava, the dance of bliss, one of the most recognized images of Hindu sacred art and the form under which..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Deities held in common by Sinhalese Buddhist and Tamil Hindu devotees in Sri Lanka and southern India, among them Pattini, worshipped by Sinhala Buddhists as a goddess of chastity, health and..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Norman Cutler was a scholar of Tamil literature, and this Indiana University Press book is his scholarly literary study of the poetics of Tamil bhakti devotional hymns, covering major collections..."

This source names Tamils directly: "This copper alloy figure of Vishnu standing was cast in Tamil Nadu during the Chola period, dated by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to about the third quarter of the tenth century."

The Tamils.

This source names Tamils directly: "Organiser's report, byline TS Venkatesan, of the Comptroller and Auditor General's finding that Tamil Nadu's HR&CE Department withheld documents needed to audit temple asset revenue, published 11..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Carl Vadivella Belle's Thaipusam in Malaysia, A Hindu Festival in the Tamil Diaspora, published by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore in 2017, is an academic study of the Thaipusam..."

This source names Tamils directly: "The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1: Mythologies from Gingee to Kuruksetra, Alf Hiltebeitel's 1988 study from the University of Chicago Press, is a major scholarly account of the South Indian Draupadi..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Gananath Obeyesekere's definitive study of the Sri Lankan goddess Pattini, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1984."

This source names Tamils directly: "Fred Clothey's The Many Faces of Murukan, Mouton, 1978, is a scholarly study."

This source names Tamils directly: "Patricia Y."

This source names Tamils directly: "The Tamil Veda: Pillan's Interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli, John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan's 1989 study from the University of Chicago Press, is a scholarly translation and study of a Srivaisnava..."

This source names Tamils directly: "Henry Whitehead's survey of the village deities of South India, first published in 1916 and issued in a revised second edition by Oxford University Press in 1921."

This source names Tamils directly: "The Tiruvacakam, attributed to the Tamil Shaiva saint Manikkavacakar and translated by G."

One of the peoples this grouping covers. This is not an exhaustive list of the peoples included.

Tamil Nadu is a state of modern India.

The Tamil country is the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent.

Northern and eastern Sri Lanka hold long-established Tamil communities.

The Tamils speak a Dravidian language; the family name is linguistic, not ethnic.

The Nataraja image was developed in the Tamil south under the Chola dynasty and remains the most widely reproduced image of any Hindu deity.