A Tamil poetical anthology : with grammatical notes and a vocabulary / [edited by G.U. Pope].
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A Tamil poetical anthology : with grammatical notes and a vocabulary / [edited by G.U. Pope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTICE. [second edition.] It lias not been thought necessary to adopt any particular arrangement in the following verses. All are from really good authors. The references are adapted to either the IXD or IIId Grammars. The vocabulary at the end contains every word in the verses, except a few very common ones. By comparing this vocabulary with that appended to the IIId Gram¬ mar, much information may be gained, in many cases. The author is strongly opposed to the ordinary method of studying Tamil poetry, with the aid of verbal commentaries; and this compilation is an attempt to introduce a better system. To those who have studied the Tamil Hand-Book, this work is recom¬ mended as a fitting introduction to the higher dialect of Tamil. Nothing like the moral verses of the Tamil poets are to be found in the cognate languages of South India. They are the result of Budhistic influences. The authors of most of them were Jains. In regard to Tiruvalluvar when it is remembered that, according to credible tradition, he lived in St. Thome, about the time when the first Armenian merchants settled there; that he was unfettered by caste; and A that his chief friend was Elela-singan, a sea-captain, it will not seem improbable that he was indebted to intercourse with the strangers for the ideas of many of his verses. ' G. U. POPE. Ootacamund, 1859.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30093442_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
