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    <title>history of Tamil literature with texts and translations from the earliest times to 600 A.D</title>
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    <namePart>Somasundaram Pillai, J. M.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1892-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>1968</dateIssued>
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    <extent>v, xxv, 424 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by J. M. Somasundaram Pillai. With a foreword and An introduction to a history of Tamil language by T. P. Meenakshisundaranar.</note>
  <note>English and Tamil.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. [420]</note>
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      <namePart>Mīn̲āṭcicuntaran̲ār, Te. Po.,</namePart>
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