Credits

Static site framework and content architecture.

Implementation partner for schema, components, routing, and deploy work.

First-pass prose, critique, and editorial tightening support.

AI-generated fresco-style image studies used as non-historical artwork.

Working notebook where drafts live before publication.

Static deployment and production hosting.

Burrow and Emeneau reference base for Proto-Dravidian roots and cognates.

University of Madras historical dictionary for headwords, senses, and citations.

Digital corpus for classical Tamil texts and later literature.

Oldest extant Tamil grammar, cited through editions and teaching resources.

Comparative Dravidian linguistics and language-history backstop.

Tamil literary history, Dravidian linguistics, and early textual context.

Palaniappan Vairam Sarathy: close glosses and translation backbone for many citations.

Complete English translations of the Sangam corpus used as a corpus-wide check.

The Interior Landscape and Poems of Love and War as foundational literary renderings.

Poems of Ancient Tamil and Puṟanāṉūṟu translations with Hank Heifetz.

Concept, voice, source decisions, and final editorial responsibility.

If a claim, citation, or translation is wrong, the error belongs here first.

Unsettled claims remain visible as work to be sourced rather than hidden as certainty.