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Rh then. Literary forgeries passed for genuine productions ; and the native scholars who have been duped by them owing to their credulity are miserably incapable of detecting them. Even the so-called Tamil scholars of the present day who profess to follow the critical and historical methods in their researches cannot discriminate the famous Brahman author of Kurinjippattu from the saintly composer of the SivaPeruman Tiruvantadi, or even from that recent Dravidian writer of an anti-Brahmanical song; or the author of Gnana Vettiyan from the immortal writer of the Kural. We give below specimens from three different poems wrongly attributed to one and the same Kapilar by Tamil scholars of the old orthodox school :-