Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy (1900-1980) was a prominent Tamil scholar known for his interdisciplinary research in history, literature, and religion. Some of his renowned works are Christianity and Tamil (1936), Samanam and Tamil (1954), Tamil Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1962), History of the Kongu Region (1974), and Tamil Country under the reign of the Kalabhras (1976). In honour of his contributions to Tamil Studies, the Tamil Nadu government nationalised his works in 2000.S.Thillainayagam, a retired professor of English, has authored a book containing precise and easy-to-understand meaning for the Thirukural couplets in Tamil and English. Besides editing Sundara Ramasamy’s Selected Essays and translating Vallikannan’s Tamil Prose after Bharathi (Routledge), he has several Tamil to English translations to his credit. His translation of Pichamurthy’s Selected Short Stories won him the Nalli-Thisai Ettum Award for the best Tamil to English translation of the year 2019. He is the recipient of A.Muttulingam Translation Award 2024 for his contribution to Tamil to English translation.Aadhavan Pazhani is a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on the emergence of modern Tamil prose and the novel in nineteenth-century Colonial Tamil Nadu. His writings and translations in English and Tamil have appeared in The Indian Express, Pudhiya Panuval, Kalachuvadu, and Neelam. He is currently editing a volume of Stalin Rajangam’s translated essays in English.G.Udhayaraj is Assistant Professor of English at Madras Christian College. Specialising in New Historicism, regional literature, and translation, he is pursuing his PhD in the cross-cultural study of Enlightenment.

• 1. The Life of Gautama Buddha2. The History of the Tripitaka3. The Buddhist Philosophy4. Buddhism Arrives in the Tamil Country5. Buddhism Flourishes6. Buddhism Declines7. Buddhist Centres in the Tamil Country8. Buddhist Doctrines in Hinduism9. Buddhists and Tamil10. The Manipravalam Style11. The Tamil Buddhist Sages12. Texts of Tamil Buddhism13. Pali Words in TamilAppendices 1. Saathanar-Iyyanar2. Manimekalai: The Sea Goddess3. Ajivikas4. The Period of Manimekalai5. Buddhist Stories in Thiruvilayadal Puranam6. Tamil Buddhism: Convergences between Pandit Iyothee Thass and Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy7. Buddha Statues in the Buddha Statues in the Chola Country in the Chola Country8. The Madras High Court Verdict on Thalavetti Muneeswara TempleBibliographyTranslator's Bibliography