Ilakkanavilakkam, which is popularly known as Tholkappiyam in parvo, is a standard treatise on Tamil Grammar in three books. We have very recently published the first and the second books viz the Ezuthathikaram and the Sollathikaram. dealing with letters and words respectively. Now, we are placing before the public the first chapter of the Third book. The Third book is known as Porulathikaram dealing with the subjective and the objective poetry, literary conventions, rhetoric, prosody, and other connected matters. The first chapter is known Akathinaieiyal i.e. the internal and immediate affairs and their bases. This author has condensed five chapters of Tholkappiam in this one chapter. So, this chapter has become too bulky to be released as a single volume and we are obliged to publish this volume in two parts.

When presenting a treatise on Grammar, we think it necessary to say a few words about Grammar in General and its usefulness in directing the mental activities on right lines to achieve the ideal of human nature and to develop it harmoniously to the full perfection which it is capable of, but we reserve detailed introduction, giving all particulars about our language, the grammatical studies in general; and in particular the other linguistic information, which are essential to bring our language and grammatical studies in the proper perspective of the international academic studies, to the last volume of this work, in addition to a concise and clear exposition of the Third book i. e. Porulathikaram.