Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 One derivation of the word tolkaappiyam is that it is the treatise authoured by tolkaappiyan or tolkaapiyanaar. However, I find from A History of South India by Nilakanta Sastri (page 77)that the real name of Tolkaappiyan was TriNadhumaagni, who was a pupil of Agastya. Therefore, it occurs to me that the name Tolkaappiyan has come to mean the authour of Tolkaappiyam. This is similar to Krishna Dvaipaayana being called Vedavyaasa, meaning the editor of vedas. What is the meaning of Tolkaappiyam. Kaappiyam is no doubt the Tamil equivalent of kaavyam meaning a compositon. What is tol? I find from the OTL (Online Tamil Lexicon)tol means speech. Therefore, tolkaappiyam means a treatise on speech, which is nothing but the grammer of speech. Here speech refers to Tamil language. I request Tamil scholars to respond to this proposition. P.K.Ramakrishnan Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes./filing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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