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Dr. R. Vijayalakshmy earned her D. Phil in Tamil
and Sanskrit from University of Oxford, England in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the Tamil Jain epic Civakacintamani.
She won the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and pursued research on the Tamil Jain epic Peruṅkatai, Prakrit Vasudevahiṇḍi
and Sanskrit versions of Bṛhatkathā under the well-known Jainism scholar, Prof. L. Alsdorf. She has also earned
a Diploma in Applied Phonetics from University of Hamburg, Germany in 1987. She began her academic career at University of
Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and later moved to International Institute of Tamil Studies at Chennai, India from where she retired
as Associate Professor. She has published A study of the Cīvakacintāmaṇi particulary from the point of
view of the interaction of Sanskrit Language and Literature with Tamil (1981), A study of the Peruṅkatai
(1981), Ājīvikas in Tamil Land (in Tamil, 1988), Women in Tamil Nadu (in Tamil, 1997), and Introduction
to Religion and Philosophy ,Tēvāram and Tivviyappirapantam.
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