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 ﻿INDEX (Names of Tamil authors and works are printed in Italics.) Aborigines, 19, 377.

Ativira Rara Pandya, a poet Academies, the traditional king, 225, 255.

account of the, 252; later, Atti-peru, meaning of, 359 1.n. 254; work of the, 257.

Augustus Caesar, an embassy to, Accadian, its affinity with Tamil, 389. 34, 121.

Ayirai hill, 266. Accent in Tamil, 135. Adiyarkiriallar, annotator, 189. Bedar, a caste, 101. Adjectives, not declined, 165, Beschi, Father, 225 ; on vowel Agapporul, Nakkirar's commen signs, 131.

tary on Iraiyanar's, 253, 405. Betel-leal, use of, 329. Agastya, 15, 150, 390 ; age oi,

Bliaratan, when translated, 247 118; grammar, 138, 397, priest

Bhatta or later colony of Brahof the Pandyas, 52 ; students

mans, 319, 380. of, 237.

Biographies of saints, 296, Agglutinative languages, 117.

Bitti Deva, of Mysore, 111. dinkuiunurut an early Chera

Brahma-Aryan, a title, 65. Tainil anthology, 312.

brahmans, civilizing the Tamils, Alapedai or prolation, 133. 42; invited by Tamil kings, Alphabet, the Tamil, 113 et seq. 59; their exclusiveness, 89 ; Alvars, or Vishnuvite saints, their influence in Tamil liter218; names of, 295; the ature, 186 ; in Malabar, 318 ; first,' 299.

when migrated, 379. Ambalakkaran, a caste, 69. Brahmanism, early, 285-288; in Ambalavasis, a caste, 103.

Kerala, 373. American languages, 172.

Brahmi characters, 115 ; used Anaimalai inscriptions, 319.

by Brahmans and Buddhists, Andal, a lady saint, 323.

126 ; and Vatteluttu comparAnthologies, Tamil, when com ed, 123; all South Indian piled, 254, 257.

alphabets traceable to, 127 ; Anthropometry, doubted, 14. except Vatteluttu, 128. Anti-brahmanical literature, 25. Brahuis, a Dravidian tribe, 50, Appar, a Saiva Saint, 217, 305.

378 ; and the Dravidians, Dr. Archaeology, 16.

Grierson on, 37, 38. Arisil kızlar, a ĩainil poet, 269.

Bray, Mr. Denys, 33; on the Arunachala kuvi, 190.

Dravidians, 37 Ariljandi Sivacharya, a Tamil Brihat Katha, 243. poet and philosopher, 222.

Buddhamitra, a Tamil grammaArtizans, social position of, 71. rian, 119,128; on mispronunAryans, original home of the, 35; ciation, 137.

conquest of South India, 51. Buhler, Dr. G., on Vatteluttu, Aryan theory of the Tamils, 20 120, 243. Asoka, 126,

Burnell, Dr. A. C., 116 ; on Assyrians, 11.

Vatteluttu, 120.