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CHENNAI: The Department of Tamil Language in the University of Madras is now in the process of revising, enlarging and updating the Tamil Lexicon. The work is going on in a large scale for the first time in 66 years. During 1924-39, the University of Madras had published the Tamil Lexicon in seven volumes comprising 1,24,405 entries.
Pioneering venture
Such a dictionary was a pioneering venture in the pre-independence period. Keeping these distinctions in mind, Prof. Vaiyapuri Pillai was conferred with the title "Rao Bhahadur" and honoured by the then Government. Since then, there have been persistent demands for updating and expanding the lexicon. The many social, political and technological changes in the six-decade period have a direct bearing on the Tamil language. It is in this background that the department of Tamil Language of the university had put forth its plan to revise, enlarge and update the Lexicon.
UGC approval
The University Grants Commission (New Delhi) has approved and will fund the project , says V. Jayadevan, professor and editor of the Lexicon project . "The present Tamil Lexicon under preparation will come out in 10 volumes, comprising at least five lakh entries, will be bilingual in nature and at the same time render the meaning chronologically," he said. Recently, the department conducted an international conference on Indian Lexicography, wherein the Vice-Chancellor, S.P. Thyagarajan, said the project would have as its by-products many special dictionaries. Some of them are already in press: Dictionary of Tholkappiyam and Law Dictionary (Tamil - English). These will would be followed by Jewels' Dictionary (Tamil - English), and Thesauras, Games' Dictionary, and Nikantus. As words from many dialects would find a place on a big scale in the new Tamil Lexicon, Prof. Jayadevan says said Tamil enthusiasts could collect and send them, which would be use so that the vanishing "dialect words" were preserved. by registering them in the proposed Lexicon. Tamil enthusiasts must come forward to lend support to this cause, he said.
`Donate words'
In addition, he says, "The words found in grammar, literature, commentaries, novels, short stories, anthologies of poetry published ranging from Tholkappiyam to the present day are to be included in this new Tamil Lexicon with evidence and authority. Therefore, both publishers and the public who have the materials could also donate them to this project, as such as many people from the public had collected many words and sent them to the Oxford Dictionary voluntarily," he added. Prof. V. Jayadevan can be reached at 044-28441164, E-mail: vjdevan@rediffmail.com
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