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The kind patronage of the Secretary of State for India in Council, and of the Madras Government, has enabled me to publish this work. To Dr. E. Bost, Librarian of the India House, I am indebted for much kindly assistance, without which this volume would not have been published. Mr. F. Pincott, M.B.A.S., has rendered me invaluable assistance throughout. This gentleman has minimised for me the confessedly great labour of publishing such a book in England.

Works

of reference I could

command

at the British

Museum, the India

House Library, and the Oxford Indian Institute but I have often felt the lack of the advice and assistance of Native scholars which I enin India. I have examined and used most joyed for many happy years of the books, Native and European, relating to the Kurral but have often departed from traditional renderings and, as no Native eye has seen my MS., I must bear the entire responsibility in such cases. That this publication may be useful in promoting the real study of Tamil, and so help those who go to South India as officers of Government, or as missionaries, better to understand the mind of the people among whom they live and work, is my one desire in sending it forth. ;

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M. G. U.

INDIAN INSTITUTE, OXFORD. Sept. 1, 1886.

POPE.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

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PAGE iii-vi

INTRODUCTION I.

IE.

III.

General

Grammar

of the Kurral

Metre of the Kurral

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TEXT AND TRANSLATION

NOTES

.......

i-xiv

xv-xxiv xxv-xxviii

1-182

183-328

LEXICON AND CONCORDANCE TO THE KURRAL AND NALADI

INDEX

[77]-[80]

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