Editor's Notes

Etext Preparation: Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland
Proof-reading: Mr. Ganapathy Subbu, Cambridge, UK
Web version: K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland
Reference Source: The Tiruvaacagam or 'Sacred Utterances' of the Tamil Poet, Saint and Sage Maanikka-vaacagar, Rev.G.U. Pope, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1900.
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Editorial Note on this release: Rev. Pope has used transliterated form with diacritical markers to cite many Tamil words with grantha characters (such as the first letter of Civan marked with C-cedilla). To render the English translation using lower case ASCII characters, we have used the following transliteration scheme with upper-case C for C-cedilla (for the first letter of Civan):

Vowels: a A i I u U e E ai o O au H;
Consonants: k ng c nj T N t n p m y r l v z L R n2
Grantha: j S s h kS SRI