In November and December 2019, Margherita Trento has lead an informal reading group to introduce students, and some fellow Śivadharmins like Kenji Takahashi, to literary Tamil. The group has been reading every week bits of Maṟaiñāṉa Campantar’s Civatarumōttaram, 16th-century Tamil translation of the Śivadharmattora, with its commentary. More specifically, Margherita and the students have slowly read through the initial verses of chapter three on the different types of offerings. With today, the meetings of 2019 are over, and students will work individually during January and February while the Śivadharma team will be doing fieldwork in India. The reading group will resume in late March or early April, so stay tuned!
