sive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil” had superseded all earlier work in that direction and to this day stands as the most authoritative and comprehensive piece of Dravidian scholarship.
In the field of Malayalam, linguistic studies by missionaries began even earlier. A Portugese grammar with a Malayalam vocabulary published in 1738, a Malayalam Dictionary completed by German and Italian missionaries in 1746, Malayalam grammars by Peter Clemens (1784) and Robert Drummond (1799), and studies by J. Adam Cellarius in 1781, form the early contributions of missionaries to Malayalam. Rev. Bailey's Dictionary of Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam needs to be mentioned here. But of far greater importance and Dravidian philological interest is Dr. Gundert's Malayalam dictionary to which Caldwell refers as "the truly scientific dictionary." As
