Tolkappiyar

“ There are six kind of words structurally formed with the end shorted- [u] : 1 upon two-letter, 2 upon vowel, 3 upon depending-h, 4 upon hard consonant, 5 upon soft consonant and 6 upon medial consonant. 407/1 That u upon two consonants does not be considered ‘medial upon’. 408/2 One unit of sound - In coalescence, the shorted u with half unit sound will be articulated with one unit of sound before consonant-initial word, in both case-sense and non-case-sense. ”

“ The first numbers at the end of the each translation of the verse denote the serial number of the verse of the section and the succeeding second one denotes the serial number of the verse of the chapter of source-book. ”

“ Name [n,uur’u] coalesces with augmentation in-between before the numeral-names from [onr’u] to [onpathu] . 472/66 The succeeding tens (pahthu, irupahthu, etc.) also coalesce in the same way. 473/67 Succeeding names denoting measurement of capacity and weight will also coalesce with the terms above. 474/68 Name [n,uur’u] with numeral prefix will also coalesce with the terms above. 475/69 Before thee succeeding numeral-name [aayiram] it coalesces with the empty morpheme [in] . ”