Thomas Lehmann Dept. of Modern Indology South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 69120 Heidelberg GERMANY phone: 0049-6221-548908 fax: 0049-6221-548841 email: d53@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Description of work: Research/teaching interests: Tamil language and literature; Tamil linguistics; Tamil grammar; Old Tamil language; Old Tamil literature; Classical Tamil poetics.