emotion within. Thus in the language of melody the particular form of a good verse glitters like a transparent crystal through which is seen the exact nature of the emotion which made it its vehicle.

     “Nowhere can this inseparable union of sound and substance of poetry be better appreciated than in the poetry of the Tamil language. In almost all good Tamil poems, whether ancient or modern, this harmony between sound and sense prevails so unvaryingly, that a verse in Tamil cannot be changed at all except in a peculiar musical tone. As the combinations into which delicate feelings and strong passions enter are infinite, the expressions of them in verse are equally infinite.”¹

     (3) As the Lemurian Tamils were highly advanced in Music and Dancing, and as language was considered to be naturally connected with those two arts, every speech requiring into notion and gesture to be impressive, they associated Musical and Dramatic literature with the poetic works, and called Tamil Muttami‰ (Triple Tamil).