Sacred hymns, collection of
Tamil, 292. Saints, the Tamil, 218. Saiva activity, early, 292-294. Saiva mutts, learning in 224. Saiva philosophy, not Dravi
dian, 192. Saiva Siddhantam defined, 38. Saivism, 383. Sakkai, a caste, 66. Sakti workship, 96. Sambandam or marriage, 103, Sandhi or coalescence, 160. Sangam, references to, 231, 392;
meaning of, 23; origin of, 234; age of the second, 241, 243;
Buddhistic origin, 252. Sankaracharya, 2. Sanskrit compounds, 159; poets
and Tamil Sangams, 238 ;
and Tolkafyam, 128. Sattanar, 216, 389; a Buddhist
poet, 251, 258. Sekkilar, age of, 220, 293. Selva Nambi, a Brahman, 320. Sembadavan, caste, 72. Semman, leather-workers, 85, Sen-Tamil, where spoken, 141. Sewell, Mr. R., on South Indian
people, 20; on the Tamil
alphabet, 124. Shanan, a caste, 71. Ship, Tamil words for the, 48. Siddhar school 226. Silapfadikaraan, an early Che
ra Tamil work, 312. Sivagnanamu11i, on letters, 133;
on usage, 14 ; on the origin
of Tamil, 149. Siravakkiyar and Tirumalisai
Alvar, 306, Smith, Mr. Vincent, 39, 49, 265. Social life in Kerala, 274. Soligas, a forest tribe, 56. Sourashtras, a weaver caste, 60. Srivaramangalam, 331. Sundaramurti Nayanar, 107, Suryanarayana Sastri, 200. Swarninatha Desika, on Tamil
and Sanskrit, 152; on Tamil letters, 156.
Tamil, the word explained, 6; Mr.Kanakasabhai's derivation, 7; affinity with Uralo-Altaic languages, 14, 34 ; an agglutinative language, 118, 381 ; changes in, 115; the Divine origin of, 119; not the only Dravidian language, 150 ; its relationship with Sanskrit, 152, 153; and Sanskrit compared, 163, 166; affiliation of, 169, 172, history of early, 173; mediaeval, 177; modern, 180; peculiarities of early, 267-280;
Nambudris' attitude to, 368. Tamils, the three racial types among the, 10, 56; a warlıke race, 41, 185, 261; their culture, 12; their foreign trade, 17-50; in Sanskrit epics, 51; probable date of their migration, 17; their acquaintance with the Romans, 18; and the Assyrians, 121 ; their commerce with the Egyptians,
121; religion of the, 215, 382. Tamil-akam, boundaries of, & Tamil alphabet, history of, 114;
when introduced, 115; before Agastva, 122; Mr. R.Sewell on the, 124; defective, 124, 131;
origin of, 136. Tamil castes, 67. Tamil civilisation, 210; Mr.
Kanakasabhai on, 192; Dr. R. Caldwell on early, 193;
due to Agastya, 237. Tamil Dictionary, copiousness
of, 261. Tamil kings, and the Mahabha.
rata war, 44; are Kshatriyas, 61 ; of Malabar, 357; none
in Rama's tiine, 54, Tamil learning, how encouraged,
255, 253. Tamil letters, origin of, 136, 382. Tamil literature, extent of, 191;
division of, 187; posterior to Aryan contact, 195 ; Mr. Damodaram Pillai's division of, 198-200; Mr. Suryanara
