Acknowledgements

Our sincere thanks go to the author Mr. Jeyakanthan for generously giving permission to release this etext file

as part of Project Madurai collections and to Mr. P.K Sivakumar, New Jersey, USA for source etext files in TAB format.

Web, PDF versions: Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland

This webpage presents the Etext in Tamil script but in Unicode encoding.

To view the Tamil text correctly you need to set up the following:

i). You need to have Unicode fonts containing Tamil Block (Latha,

Arial Unicode MS, TSCu_Inaimathi, Code2000, UniMylai,...) installed on your computer

and the OS capable of rendering Tamil Scripts (Windows 2000 or Windows XP).

ii)Use a browser that is capable of handling UTF-8 based pages

(Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 5) with the Unicode Tamil fontchosen as the default font for the UTF-8 char-set/encoding view.

. In case of difficulties send an email request to kalyan@geocities.com or kumar@vt.edu

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