The Tamil text Koothanool contains descriptions of over 300 hastas and mudras.

T-girl – taboo – taboo breaking – talisman – talking dirty – Tamakeri – Tamil marriage customs – tampon – Tanner stage – Tantra – Tantric massage – tantric sex – Taoist sexual practices – taphephilia – tart card – tattooing – tea room – teabagging – tearoom – teasing ( sexology ) – technical virginity – teenage fatherhood – teenage pregnancy – teledildonics – telegony – teleiophilia – telekura – telephone scatologia – telephone scatophilia – telephone sex – telephonicophilia – tellak – temple prostitute – temporal lobe trauma – temporary marriage – teratophilia – termination of pregnancy – territorial marking – terror play – testes – testicle – testicular cancer – testicular feminization – testicular torsion – testicular-feminizing syndrome – testis – testosterone – text picture-thalpotentiginy – theca externa – theca folliculi – theca interna – thecoma – thelarche – third sex – third-sexer – thong underwear – three letters and six etiquettes – three-legged bloomers – threesome – threshold ( disambiguation ) – thrush ( infection ) – tickling – tie and tease – tightlacing – tit wank – titty fuck – tomboy – tongzhi ( sexuality ) – top ( BDSM ) – top ( sex ) – topping – torture ( sexology ) – tossed salad – total enclosure fetishism – toucherism – tourniquet – toxic shock syndrome – tracheal shave – traditional marriage – trampling – tranny – tranny chaser – transactional sex – transactional sexual relationship – transexualism – transgender – transition nuclear protein – transitioning ( transgender ) – transman – transscrotal piercing – transsexual – transsexualism – transurethral needle ablation of the prostate – transurethral resection of the prostate – transvestic fetishism – transvestism – transvestite – transvestitism – transvestophilia – transwoman – traumatic masturbatory syndrome – Treponema pallidum – trial marriage – trial separation – triangle piercing – triangular theory of love – tribadism – Trichomonas vaginalis – Trichomoniasis – trichophilia – triple cock cage – triple cock ring – triple penetration – triple-X syndrome – tripsolagnia – troilism – Trokosi – trophy wife – troubadour – true hermaphroditism – True Love Waits – tubal ligation – tubal reversal – tubal sterilization – tubuli seminiferi recti – TUNA – tunica albuginea ( disambiguation ) – tunica albuginea ( ovaries ) – tunica albuginea ( penis ) – tunica albuginea ( testicles ) – tunica vaginalis – tunica vasculosa testis – Tuppy Owens – turn-off – turn-on – Turner's syndrome – TURPS – twins – two type theory of transsexuality – two-spirit –

* The Tiruvacagam ; or, ' Sacred utterances ' of the Tamil poet, saint, and sage Manikka-Vacagar: the Tamil text of the fifty-one poems, with English translation, Oxford, 1900

The main area of the document is printed in three columns with the same text in 15 Asian languages, including Malay, Burmese, Tamil, Thai and Bengali.

An 8th century Tamil text written by Thirumangai Alvar described this place as Kadal Mallai, ( Sea Mountain ) ‘ where the ships rode at anchor bent to the point of breaking laden as they were with wealth, big trunked elephants and gems of nine varieties in heaps ’.

), which consists of over 3000 verses, forms a part of the key text of the Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta, the Tirumurai.

* Complete text of Vinayakar Akaval in Tamil Script with audio rendering

Tirumular authored the Tirumantiram, which is a well known Tamil text.

The only similar pre-modern reference is to a " Kumari Kandam " ( written க ு மர ி கண ் டம ், rather than க ு மர ி க ் கண ் டம ் as the land is called in modern Tamil ), which is named in the medieval Tamil text Kantapuranam either as being one of the nine continents, or one of the nine divisions of India and the only region not to be inhabited by barbarians.

Akilathirattu Ammanai () ( akilam ( world ) + thirattu ( collection ) + ammanai ( ballad )), also called Thiru Edu ( venerable book ), is the main religious text of the Tamil belief system Ayyavazhi.

Several episodes, as narrated in the Akilam ( the holy text of Ayyavazhi ), describe Ayya Vaikundar as an Avatar of Vishnu ( a Tamil name for Vishnu ).

An earlier Tamil version, Ramavataram, by Kambar is also a prevalent text among the Sri Vaishnava and Smartha Brahmins in South India.

developed a prose style which built on the inner rhythms of the Tamil language and produced a rhythmic, flowing text.

The ancient Tamil Sangam literature mentions that between 400 BC and 600 AD, soldiers from southern India received special martial arts training which revolved primarily around the use of spear ( vel ), sword ( val ) and shield ( kedaham ).

It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence 113 years before then.

* A reference to Dosa occurs in the Tamil Sangam Literature Edward Farnworth mentions the first reference to Thosai in Tamil Sangam literature in the sixth century A. D.

Srinivasa Iyengar who made research on this topic mentions in his book " History of Tamils " Chapter XVI on topic " Criticism of the legend ", as the years mentioned for the Three Tamil Sangams are too vast.

Kalittokai mentions that many Tamil Naga tribes such as Maravar, Eyinar, Oliar, Oviar, Aruvalur and Paravar migrated to the Pandyan kingdom and started living there in the Third Sangam in the first centuries AD.

Periyapuranam mentions a Pallava ruler, Aiyatikal Kaadavarkon, who at Chidambaram composed hymns in praise of the Lord in venpaa metre of Tamil and attained mukti.

Both kootiyattam and chakyar koothu find several mentions in ancient sangam literature of south and also in the epigraphs belonging to subsequent Pallava, Chera, Chola periods in Tamil Nadu.

The early narrative poem Cilappatikaram, belonging to the post-Sangam period also mentions various forms of music practiced by the Tamil people.

Manimekalai, one of the five great Epics in the Tamil language, mentions Karalar, the name generally believed to denote Karkarthar, twice, using the phrase Karalar Sanbai meaning the city Sirkazhi of the Karkathar.

Adiyaarkunalaar, an early medieval commentator or Urai-asiriyar, mentions the 12 months of the Tamil Hindu calendar with particular reference to Chitterai.

Adiyarkunalaar, an early medieval commentator or Urai-asiriyar mentions the 12 months of the Tamil calendar with particular reference to Chitterai.

Tamil Sangam literature ( 200BCE to 500CE ) mentions mAyOn, or the dark one, as the supreme deity who creates, sustains and destroys the universe.

In turn Tamil literature from the Classical period mentions foreign ships arriving for trade and paying in gold for products.

* 1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.

In domestic cricket, Muralitharan has played for two first-class Sri Lankan sides, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the Premier Trophy and Central Province in the Provincial Championship.

The first two decades in the 20th century are distinguished for the harmony that prevailed among Sinhalese and Tamil political leadership, which has not been the case ever since.

The two earliest manuscripts from India, to be acknowledged and registered by UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005 were in Tamil.

In India, two varieties of the wok exist: a more traditional Chinese style wok with a wider diameter called the " cheena chatti " ( literally, " Chinese pot " in Malayalam and Tamil ), and a slightly deeper vessel with a narrower diameter and a similar shape, known as a karahi.

Hyundai has two manufacturing plants in India located at Sriperumbudur in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

( Google Maps offers views of two such synthetic ultramarine manufacturing sites, one near Hull, England ( now defunct ), another in Comines, France and another in Ambattur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India Chennai.

Bharatanatyam proper is a solo dance, with two aspects, lasya, the graceful feminine lines and movements, and tandava Ananda Thandavam ( Tamil ) ( the dance of Shiva ), masculine aspect, which is identical to the Yin and Yang in the Chinese culture.

There are a total of 12 colleges in India, of which three are in the state of Karnataka, two colleges in Hyderabad, one each in Gujarat, Chattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh and four colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Mysore is connected by National Highway NH-212 to the state border town of Gundlupet, where the road forks into the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. State Highway 17, which connects Mysore to Bangalore, was upgraded to a four-lane highway in 2006, reducing travel time between the two cities.

English visitors applied the Tamil name catamaran to the swift, stable sail and paddle boats made out of two widely separated logs and used by Polynesian natives to get from one island to another.

Olcott Memorial High School provides free education, uniforms, books, and two daily meals to impoverished rural children in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

There was initially little tension amongst Sri Lanka's two largest ethnic groups, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, when Ponnambalam Arunachalam, a Tamil, was appointed representative of the Sinhalese as well the Tamils in the national legislative council.

It pioneered the portrayal of two morally opposed brothers personifying good and evil, a repeated motif in Hindi films of subsequent years, including Yash Chopra's Deewar, a breakthrough film for Amitabh Bachchan and would later be remade by the Telugu film industry as Bangaru Talli ( 1971 ) and in Tamil as Punniya Boomi ( 1978 ).

Due to the significant minority of South Indians, particularly people of Tamil extraction, there are two Hindu temples in the area.

Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition spanning more than two thousand years.

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan Government declared an end to two decades of armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ), who had been seeking a separate homeland, or ' Eelam ', for Tamils in the north and east of the country.

Nathan is a Singaporean of Tamil descent ; his childhood was spent with his two older brothers and grandparents, V. Sellapan and Apiram, in Muar, Johor, in a house overlooking the sea.

In contemporary versions of the legend, the cities where the first two Sangams were held are said to have been located on Kumari Kandam, a fabled lost continent, that lay to the South of mainland India, and which was described as the cradle of Tamil culture.

The party was founded in 1972 as Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( ADMK ) by MGR, a veteran Tamil film star and a popular politician, as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ) led by M. Karunanidhi, the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu, owing to serious differences between the two.

In 1971 election, the DMK fought in alliance with Congress ( Indira ) and the Opposition alliance which consisted of the two Senior National Leaders, Rajaji and Kamarajar was termed as a strong alliance and was widely supported by Media to re-capture power in Tamil Nadu.

The next year BoB acquired two banks: Umbergaon People ’ s Bank in southern Gujarat and Tamil Nadu Central Bank in Tamil Nadu state.