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.
