¹ i.e. Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts.

² Caldwell, Robert, A Comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages, 1875, 10–12Google Scholar.

³ See book no. 100.

⁴ See book no. 105; also a letter written on 16th September, 1706, which is reproduced in Ziegenbalg, , Propagation of the Gospel in the East, 3rd ed., London, 1718, part I, 30Google Scholar.

⁵ See book no. 110.

⁶ Rajarigam, D., The history of Tamil Christian literature, Madras, 1958, 21Google Scholar.

⁷ Propagation of the Gospel in the East, part I, 30.

⁸ ibid., part II, 7.

⁹ Lehman, D. Arno, Alte Briefe aus Indien: Unveröffentlichte Briefe von Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Berlin, 1957, 86Google Scholar.

¹⁰ ibid., 120.

¹¹ ibid., 34, 39, 43 (letters written on 5th September, 25th September, and 1st October, 1706).

¹² ibid., 72.

¹³ “An Account of the Malabarians”, in Propagation of the Gospel in the East, p. 29.

¹⁴ Auction catalogue, Bibliotheca Rostgaardiana (held in the Royal Library, Copenhagen), p. 449.

¹⁵ i.e. Tolkāppiyaṉār.

¹⁶ Followers of the Jain faith.

¹⁷ i.e. Agastya.

¹⁸ Nikaṇṭu means a metrical vocabulary. The author of the above-mentioned work might have been a Jain writer who lived in the 9th century and wrote Cuṭtāmaṇinikaṇṭu. Ziegenbalg's statement, however, which places him at the same time as Tiruvācakam (i.e. 12th century), would leave us with a gap of 300 years.

¹⁹ He obviously refers to the Kuṟaḷ. Tiruvaḷḷuvar is the name of the author.

²⁰ Ziegenbalg uses this term throughout the manuscript, thus making a clear distinction between the Hindu gods and the Christian God.

²¹ i.e. Iśvara, the god Śiva.

²² i.e. the Mahābhārata.

²³ i.e. Kṛṣṇa.

²⁴ This could be the amplified adaptation of Villiputtūrar's Bhāratam written by Madalambēḍu Nallā Piḷḷai, who lived approximately at the same time as Ziegenbalg.

²⁵ Ziegenbalg no doubt means Sanskrit written in Grantha characters; see book no. 22.

²⁶ i.e. Hariścandra, King of Ayōdhyā.

²⁷ This seems t o be the older of the two works. The episode itself appears in the Mahābhārata. Ariccantirapurāṇam was a poem from the Saṅgham period.

²⁸ i.e. Vikramāditya.

²⁹ By Upēndrācārya. A handbook of astrology in verse with prose and paraphrases.

³⁰ i.e. Kulōttuṅka who conquered Kaliṅga.

³¹ i.e. Rāja Rāja Cōṟa.

³² This is not a name but a title. Muni means a holy man.

³³ This is certainly not the name of the author, alaṅkāra means rhetoric.

³⁴ i.e. a form of the god Viṣṅu.

³⁵ i.e. Grantha, the script used for writing Sanskrit in the Tamil country.

³⁶ i.e. Skanda.

³⁷ Ziegenbalg, See, Genealogy of the Malabari gods, ed. Germann, W., Madras, 1867Google Scholar.

³⁸ In his Genealogy of the Malabari gods (p. 32) Ziegenbalg speaks of Paṇṭāraṅkaḷ as followers of the Liṅgadhari (Vira-Śaiva) sect which was founded by Basava at the beginning of the 11th century but at p. 151 he describes a Pantaram as a Śudra. In actual fact they are just a type of wandering mendicant.

³⁹ This could be a Syrian Christian work. Titles beginning with a Ñāṉa (or as Ziegenbalg writes it Gnána) often indicate an orientation of this kind.

⁴⁰ i.e. Viṣṇu.

⁴¹ i.e. Śrīraṅgam, a Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage.

⁴² i.e. a Tamil version of the Sanskrit Pañcatantra.

⁴³ Here the author obviously refers to Kampaṉ's Rāmāyaṇnam.

⁴⁴ The goddess is, according to mythology, the wife of Skanda, who is also identical with Kārttikeya, who in turn is called Subrahmaṇya in the south.

⁴⁵ The correct spelling is Coromandel.

⁴⁶ i.e. Vaiṣṇavites.

⁴⁷ i.e. Hanumān.

⁴⁸ This could be Ācāra-kōvai by Peruvāyiṉ Muḷḷiyār, one of the kīṛ-kaṇakku poems. Ziegenbalg's “author” is probably only a contemporary commentator.

⁴⁹ He probably means his guru.

⁵⁰ i.e. one of the names of śiva. See Genealogy of the Malabari gods, 50.

⁵¹ See Genealogy …, 19.

⁵² He probably means Maṉaiyaṭicāstiram.

⁵³ Mylapur, a suburb of Madras where according to the legend St. Thomas was speared to death by four soldiers.

⁵⁴ This work is in praise of Ampikai as worshipped in Madurai. It is ascribed to Kulacēkara Pāṇṭiyaṉ or Ukra-kumāra Pāṇṭiyaṉ. It consists in fact of thirty-one stanzas.

⁵⁵ See book no. 48; there Ziegenbalg spells the name as Kuru Namatschiweīer.

⁵⁶ i.e. Sītā.

⁵⁷ This too seems to be a part of Kampaṉ's Rāmāyaṇam.

⁵⁸ A treatise on the legend and ritual of the Ekātaci festival, a fast in honour of Viṣṇu.

⁵⁹ i.e. Garuda.

⁶⁰ i.e. Udyōga-panam of Villiputtūr's Bhāratam.

⁶¹ See Genealogy of the Malabari gods, 129.

⁶² Probably Ñāṇacarantūl cāstiram, a Śaiva tract on divination from breath.

⁶³ Frauen-Regel; see Genealogy of the Malabari gods, 129.

⁶⁴ “Die Kunst etwas orakelmäβig durch Punkte auszuforschen … ”, see Grimm, , Deutsches Wörterbuch, Vol. VII, Leipzig, 1889Google Scholar.

⁶⁵ i.e. Nāṭyaśāstra.

⁶⁶ The author obviously means among Malabari women.

⁶⁷ The author's name is actually Nārāyaṇa Tācar.

⁶⁸ i.e. the Danish East India Company.

⁶⁹ Pardao or Pardau, a silver coin issued under Joan V (1706–1750) for the Portuguese Indies and struck principally at Goa. It was valued at half a rupia.

⁷⁰ The author is in fact Varatarāja Paṇṭitar, the same who wrote book no. 67.

⁷¹ Auvaiyār was a Caṅkam poetess, but there is a legend which calls her an incarnation of the goddess Sarasvati.

⁷² See Genealogy of the Malabari gods, 141.

⁷³ ibid., 49, 50.

⁷⁴ Mahamēru, the centre of the world. See Genealogy of the Malabari gods.

⁷⁵ i.e. Nantikēcuraṉ; see Genealogy …

⁷⁶ i.e. Tirumūla Tēvar; see Genealogy …