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15 ristics of Tamil Poetry accord to Tamil quite a nique place in the history of cultivated languages in he civilised world. But sad to relate that the Tamil poems prescri- ed as text books for the B.A. and F.A, exami- ations in the University of Madras, have attracted ttle or no attention of the students, and that a study f them has even been looked upon as useless and resome by some who had been led to revel in tories of a religious and mythological character and vho had thereby lost all seriousness and all appre- iation of nature's charms. This has be due partly >the teaching of the Pandits and the ky vol mes of notes which mainly consist in giving word 1 for word meanings and turgid and trivial grammatical otes and partly to some prescribed Tamil texts in rose and poetry which, for the most part, contain silly and crude religious myths translated from Sanscrit Puranas and which by no means represent the true] haracter of original Tamil classics. say I do not mean, however, to deny the fact that ne or two classical poems are occasionally prescri- >ed as text-books by the scrupulous members of the Tamil Board, but I only intend to that even these brilliant gems get buried deep in the heap of filthy poems forthcoming as text-books by their side. The sparkling glitter of the former is swallowed; up in the arkness of the latter; and the study of Tamil