PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

There is no other language in the whole world as Tamil, that has suffered so much damage by natural and human agencies, and has been done so much injustice by malignant foreigners and native dupes.

The general belief that all arts and sciences are progressively advancing with the passage of time, is falsified in the case of philology, owing to the fundamental blunder of locating the original home of the Tamilians in the Mediterranean region, and taking Sanskrit, a post-Vedic semi-artificial composite literary dialect, the Indian Esperanto, so to speak, for the prototype of the Indo-European Form of Speech.

Westerners do not know as yet, that Tamil is a highly developed classical language of Lemurian origin, and has been, and is being still, suppressed by a systematic and co-ordinated effort by the Sanskritists both in the public and private sectors, ever since the Vedic mendicants migrated to the South, and taking utmost advantage of their superior complexion and the primitive credulity of the ancient Tamil kings, posed themselves as earth-ly gods (Bhu-suras) and deluded the Tamilians into the belief, that their ancestral language or literary dialect was divine or celestial in origin.

After the independent discovery of Sanskrit by Sir William Jones in 1796, the situation of Tamil became worse, as the Max Mulleri-an school exclusively devoted its attention to Sanskrit studies, and blindly believing the Sanskrit records, promoted and propa-gated them far and wide, and thereby gave a fresh impetus to the Sanskritists' continuation of their ancestral crimes of impos-ture, plagiarism and indirect vandalism.