Tolkappiyar

“ The long commentary is one which gives all materials indispensible to understand the meaning. (105) The long commentary, according to scholars, will contain asking and answering questions, clearing doubts by means of his author’s work and authoritative other’s work, establishing an ideal boldly. (106) If the work is not in accordance with the above-said rules it is to be considered as defective. (107) Scholars say the primary work is free from defective but the commentary. (108) If defects appear in original or commentary it is considered as flaw. ”

“ The term [manthi] is applicable to denote the female sex of monkey [kurangu] , gorilla # [musu] and monkey with advanced wit [uugam] . (68) There are some terms applicable to dente a specific family of creature – [kaduvan] is male monkey, [koo’ttaan] is tree residing owl, [thaththai] is red mouth parrot, [verugu] is the fierce mouth wild cat, [see’val] is male horse, [ee’val] is black wild pig, [kan’di] is male buffalo, - all these may not be ignored. ”

“ Defining the commentary, verbatim commentary [kaandigai] , creating points on commentary and omitting points on commentary are also composed of in addition. (101) The nature of the verse [suuththiram] is to be a composition of few words pregnant with lofty ideas containing many meanings being instructive in many ways. (102) Verbatim commentary runs with meaning for each and every word in the verse in simple and clear way. (103) The expansion commentary explains the verse clearly and elaborately with illustrations and examples. ”