About Tolkāppiyam
Tolkāppiyam is the most ancient of all Tamil treatises now extant. It is the earliest complete work of linguistics in the ancient classical traditions of the world. It is complete in the sense that it encompasses both the written and spoken languages, and it is a grammar of graphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, poetics, prosody and rhetoric.
Tolkāppiyam is the most ancient of all Tamil treatises now extant. It is the earliest complete work of linguistics in the ancient classical traditions of the world. It is complete in the sense that it encompasses both the written and spoken languages, and it is a grammar of graphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, poetics, prosody and rhetoric.
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| S.No | Details of the Book | Year | Category | Download |
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| 1. | Tolkāppiyam Eḻuttatikāram Text and Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar’s Commentary (Editor: Maḻavai Makāliṅkaiyar; Publication: Kalvikkaṭal Press) | 1847 | Commentary |  |
| 2. | Tholcapya Nunnool (Editor: S. Samuel Pillay; Publication: The Press of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Vepery) | 1858 | Text | |
| 3. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Cēṉāvaraiyar’s Commentary (Editor: C. W. Damodaram Pillai; Publication: Pushparata Cheṭṭiyār’s Kalāratṉākaram Press, Cheṉṉapaṭṭaṇam) | 1868 Vipava, Puraṭṭāti | Commentary | |
| 4. | Tolkāppiyac Cēṉāvaraiyam (Editor: Kōmaḷapuram Irācakōpālappiḷḷai; Publication: Varttamāṉataraṅkiṇī Cākai Press) | 1868 Vipava, Kārttikai | Commentary | |
| 5. | Tolkāppiyam Eḻuttatikāram with Iḷampūraṇar’s Commentary (Editor: Tiricirapuram Cōṭacāvatāṉam Cupparāya Cheṭṭiyār; Publication: Attinīyam and delinews Branch Press, Chennai) | 1868 Vipava, Kārttikai | Commentary | |
| 6. | Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram with Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar’s Commentary (Editor: C. W. Damodaram Pillai; Publication: The Scottish Press, Madras) | 1885 (pārttipa) | Commentary | |
| 7. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Cēṉāvaraiyar’s Commentary (Editor: C. W. Damodaram Pillai; Publication: Vittiyānupālaṉayantiracālai, Cheṉṉapaṭṭaṇam) | 1886 (Viya) | Commentary | |
| 8. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar’s Commentary (Editor: C. W. Damodaram Pillai; Publication: Victoria Jubilee Yantrasalai, Cheṉṉapaṭṭaṇam) | 1892 (Nantaṉa) | Commentary | |
| 9. | Tholcapyam Porulathikaram with Nachinarkinier’s Commentaries (Agathinai and Purathinai) (Editor: Rao Bahadur S. Bavanandam Pillai; Publication: Minerva Press, Chennai) | 1916 | Commentary | |
| 10. | Tolkāppiyam Ceyyuḷiyal with Commentaries of Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar and Uraiyāciriyar (Editor: R. Raghavaiyangar; Publication: Tamiḻc Caṅka Muttirācālai, Madurai) | 1917 | Commentary | |
| 11. | Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram Pērāciriyam (Meyppāṭṭiyal, Uvamaviyal, Ceyyuḷiyal and Marapiyal) (Editor: Rao Bahadur S. Bavanandam Pillai; Publication: Longmans Green and Company, Chennai) | 1917 | Commentary | |
| 12. | Tolkāppiyam Iḷampūraṇam Poruḷatikāram - Akattiṇaiyiyal and Puṟattiṇaiyiyal (Editor: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai) | 1919 | Commentary | |
| 13. | Tolkāppiyam Text ( with Comments and Textual Variations) (Editor: P. Punnaivananatha Mudaliyar; Publication: P.N. Chidambara Mudaliyar & Co, Madurai) | 1922 | Text | |
| 14. | Tolkāppiyam Eḻuttatikāram, Collatikāram (Editor: kā. Namaccivāya Mudaliyar; Publication: Si. Kumrasamy Naidu Sons, Chennai) | 1922 | Text | |
| 15. | Tolkāppiyap Potuppāyiram Text and Āttiraiyar Pērāciriyar ’s Commentary (Editor: T.V. Sadasiva Pandarathar; Publication: Sri komalamba Press, Kumbakonam) | 1923 | Commentary | |
| 16. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram Iḷampūraṇam (Editor: Kāvērippākkam Namaccivāya Mudaliyar; Publication: Si. Kumrasamy Naidu Sons, Chennai) | 1927 | Commentary | |
| 17. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Teyvaccilaiyār’s Commentary (Publication: Karanthai Tamil Sangam) | 1929 | Commentary | |
| 18. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram Iḷampūraṇam (Editor: Kāvērippākkam Namaccivāya Mudaliyar; Publication: Si. Kumrasamy Naidu Sons, Chennai) | 1931 | Commentary | |
| 19. | Tolkāppiyam Iḷampūraṇam Poruḷatikāram (Kaḷaviyal, Kaṟpiyal and Poruḷiyal) (Editor: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai; Publication: Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu & Sons, Chennai) | 1933 | Commentary | |
| 20. | Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram Part. I (Nacciṉārkkiṉiyam) (Editors: S. Vaiyapuri Pillai & M.N. Somasundaram Pillai; Publication: Sadhu Press, Chennai) | 1934 | Commentary | |
| 21. | Tolkāppiyam Iḷampūraṇam Poruḷatikāram ( Meyppāṭṭiyal, Uvamaiyiyal, Ceyyuḷiyal and Marapiyal) (Editor: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai; Publication: Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu & Sons, Chennai) | 1935 | Commentary | |
| 22. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram Nacciṉārkkiṉiyam (Editor: M.V. Venugopala Pillai; Publication: Bavandar Academy, Chennai) | 1941 | Commentary | |
| 23. | Tolkāppiyam Eḻuttatikāram with Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar’s Commentary and G. Devaneyapavanar’s footnotes (Publication: The South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, Tinnevelly, Limited, Chennai) | 1944 | Commentary | |
| 24. | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Kallāṭaṉār’s Extended Commentary, Old Commentary and K. Sundaramoorthy’s Explanation (Publication: The South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, Tinnevelly, Limited, Chennai) | 1964 | Commentary | |
| 25. | Tolkāppiyam Text and Textual Variations – A Deep Study (Editors: K.M. Venkataramaiya, S.V. Subramaniyan, P.V. Nagarajan; Publication: The International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram) | 1996 | Text | |
| 26 | Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram with Iḷampūraṇar’s Commentary (K. Sundaramoorthy; Publication: The South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, | 1963 | Commentary | |