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There can be many other inferences that we can make. Rather, the grammatical concepts might have been sourced from the common school and the scripts might have been independant. This doesnt mean, tamil is derived from sanskrit. Grammars of Modern sanskrit and Tamil might have evolved from a common school of grammar.Since Tholkappiar mentions about Aindram school of grammar, he might have lived much before Panini, who wrote modern sanskrit grammar.Tamil had extensive relation with Sanskrit.A vedic brahmana had written grammar for Tamil, which is used till now.Tholkappiar should be a brahmana, since he learnt vedas.Tholkappiar’s guru is a scholar of four vedas, and hence Tholkappiar should have learned vedas.Tholkappiar could have learned about aindram school of grammar.The following are the conclusions that we can make. All these grammars had preceded Panini’s grammar, and is mentioned by himself in his work Ashtadhyayi. Here, the word ஐந்திரம் indicates the Aindram School of Sanskrit grammar, which is the first of the eleven sanskrit schools of grammar. i think tholkappiar mentions about his guru in pandian court, who is a learned men of all four vedas.

Tholkappiar says, that he is wanting to refining an already existing grammar book. முந்து நூல் கண்டு முறைப்பட எண்ணிப் –> This line indicates, that tholkappiam is NOT the first tamil grammar book. I am listing out the following inferences that we can make.

I am reproducing the preface of this book. The whole book of tholkappiam can be downloded from Project Madurai website.

Sukumar had challenged me to give a proof that tholkappiar was a brahmin, and while sourcing information for this, i happened to learn many things, which i want to consolidate in this post. I argued that Tholkappiar, who wrote the first known tamil grammar book called “Tholkappiam”, himself is a brahmin, and this fact is often concealed or suppressed in various forums. I had a debate in this blog post of sukumar about the world tamil conference and parpola’s paper on Dravidian roots to IVC (which is also called Saraswathi Civilization).

Yaathum oore yaavarum kelir purananuru song