Redemption Through Grace (An Old and Rare Book)

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Tamil language, one of the ancient languages of the world, holds a long history of grammar and literature, even before Tolkappiyar. With such a classical. status, Tamil writings were carried out in Palm-leaf manuscripts by Tamil scholars till the mid - twentieth century. The Institute of Asian Studies has been greatly interested to bring out the hidden cultural treasures embedded in Palm-leaf manuscripts. It has also edited and published more than twenty such literary pieces with English translations. And now, Tinkalur Arulmalai Nonti Natakam also falls into this catagory. I acknowledge my indebtedness to the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, Dr. G. John Samuel but for whose encouragement this publication would not have seen the light of day. I thank Mr. M. Paramasivam I.A.S. for having donated this Palm-leaf manuscript. My thanks are due to Dr. Ta.Ko. Paramasivam of Tamil University,. Tanjavur, and Mr. Kovai Mani, for permitting me to make a comparison with other copies of this manuscript. I thank Dr. N. Ganesan,. the poet N. Kanthasami, the poet Te. Pa. Chinnasami for granting me manuscripts which have been of great help to me in variant readings and interpretation. I express my gratitude to Dr. Rasu, the co-editor of this work, for providing epigrapic information collected from Tinkalur. I sincerely thank Dr. P. Subramaniam, for having introduced me into the field of Manuscriptology at this Institute, and also for clearing my doubts while copying the manuscript and writing Preface to this edition. Ms. R. Jayalakshmi for her help in editing and writing notes, Dr. K. Jayakumar for his valuable suggestions, I thank Prof. K.G. Seshadri for his excellent translation of this work into English, Dr. M.S. Nagarajan, Dr.V. Ganesan for going through English section, Mrs. Prema Maruthamuthu, my wife, for her fair copying of the Preface, Mr. M. Masilamani, S. Vadivelan for their assistance in copying the Manuscript, Mrs. Bama Ranjit Kumar for preparing word Index, Ms. N. Umarani for her DTP work, T.S. Soma. Sundharam for his assistance in doing research about the temple, S.P. Marimuthu for taking Photographs of the temples, Students Xerox and Offset Printers for their neat printing.

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