User:Sengai Podhuvan/Prologue on Tolkappiyam

Tolkappiyam is written by Tolkaapiyan (also Tolkaapiyar). Panampaaranaar, a schoolmate of him wrote a prologue on the work of Tolkaappiyar while it was published before the learned and his professor Athangoottaasaan in a court of a king Pandiyan (Nilam tharu thiruvin Pandian - means - Pandia, the king extended his region)

Analytic linguistic notes
பல் சாலை முது குடுமியின், நல் வேள்வித் துறை போகிய	(760) தொல் ஆணை நல் ஆசிரியர் புணர் கூட்டு உண்ட புகழ் சால் சிறப்பின், நிலம் தரு திருவின் நெடியோன் (மதுரைக்காஞ்சி 679 முதல்)
 * 'ainthiram' is a treatise, a preschool of thought on Sanskrit grammar before Panini of 4th century B.C.
 * Tolkappiyar, the author of our title-book, who did not know Panini's work, but who knows Panini's prior work belongs before 4th century b.c.
 * Athangodu is a name of village, may be taken as modern Tiruvananthapuram on the basis of its name by etymology. thiru + vit + Atham + kodu. 'Atham' or 'athavm' means 'fig' fruit in Tamil.
 * The Pandiya king, the contemporaneity, is an ancestor to a king of 'sangam period' according to literary sources.