Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation, spelling, accents and punctuation remain unchanged.
In the original, with one exception, Tamil is spelt with the diacritic .. beneath the l. As this symbol is not available, the reader is asked to imagine it.
The original had fragments of both text and commentary dispersed over several pages, while this e-book has each numbered section of text followed by its commentary. This may result in some indexed page numbers being less accurate than the original.
The table of contents was added by the transcriber.