Thanks to The Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies in Koeln, Germany, for making this text available. The project of computerizing premodern Tamil (and of developing a computerized Lexicon) is mainly that of Thomas Malten, who is Lecturer in Tamil at Cologne. The results of Dr. Malten's work have been of great value to many scholars, including those of us at Berkeley. The Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies is under the directorship of Prof. Kapp and is located at Pohligstr.1, 50969 Koeln, Germany Tel 0621/4705340 Fax 0621/4705151 email ami01@rrz.uni-koeln.de. The institute maintains agopher site .

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