The ‘Sacred’ Kurral of Tiruvalluva-Nâyanâr With Introduction Grammar Translation Notes Lexicon and Concordance

I am thankful after so many years to see at length the completion of this work projected at the very outset of my Oriental status-a work which has cost much time and labour and completes the series of Tamil books by which I have tried to help forward the study of this admirable language among both Europeans and Native. It is primary intended to make classical Tamil easier to English students while to Native students it may afford means for a more comprehensive and fruitful study of their greatest classic author who has sung of so many topics Musaeo contingens cuncta lepore ‘touching all things with poetic grace.’ The Grammatical Introduction together with the Handbook and a careful use of the Lexicon and Concordance aided by the English and Latin versions will make it easy to master the great work of this very influential teacher of men.