Balasubramaniam's collection

This collection consists of 22 palm leaf bundles. They contain information related to poems and traditional medicine. The poems relate to local deities, astrology, witchcraft, grammatical commentaries (nikanTu), songs from the Kuravan community (kuravanji) and tamil lexicon. The traditional medicine describes various conditions and diseases and their remedies as well as the use of incantations and magical diagrams. This collection comprises 2 series : (1) Anthrology of poems, (2) traditional medicine. Most of the documents are undated, a few contain dates from the Tamil lunar calendar. Dates of original material: Not given. Extent and format of original material: The collection consists of 22 palm leaf bundles.