Kausalya Hart

{{BLP sources|date=January 2008}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} '''Kausalya Hart''' ({{langx|ta|கௌசல்யா ஹார்ட்}}) is a scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley. She is famous for translating Sangam literature from Tamil to English and for writing many Tamil textbooks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/kausalya-hart |title=Dept. of S & SE Asian Studies - UC Berkeley |access-date=11 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331212844/http://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/kausalya-hart |archive-date=31 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Life== Kausalya Hart is a scholar of Tamil. She taught in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written many books for students and has translated many works of bhakti literature from the 6th to 15th century CE.

==Work== She wrote the book Tamil for Beginners, widely used in universities. She has written several Tamil plays and much other material for teaching Tamil. She has written papers on Tamil literature, including the Tamil Ramayana and aspects of early Christian literature. Her translations include many works of Tamil bhakti literature from the 6th to the 15th centuries and also the Manimekalai and the Kalingattu Parani. Her translations are available on the Project Madurai website.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project Madurai|url=https://www.projectmadurai.org/|access-date=2021-10-23|website=www.projectmadurai.org}}</ref>

==See also== * List of translators into English

==References== <references/>

==External links== *[http://www.yale-university.com/ycias/southasia/languages/tamil.htm South Asian Studies Council]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - Yale University *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/620288 Tamil Expressives with Initial Voiced Stops M. B. Emeneau, Kausalya Hart] - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1993), pp. 75–86

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