ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors are grateful to Dr. D. P. Pattanayak, Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, for the constant guidance and encouragement bestowed upon them. They are grateful to Dr. M. S. Thirumalai, Professor-cum-Deputy Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages who has patiently gone through an earlier version, gave exhaustive comments and suggestions for the improvement of this volume. They are thankful to Dr. E. Annamalai, Dr. H. R. Dua, Smt. Vimala Nadarajan and Dr. S. Rajaram who have helped them by providing some examples in Tamil and suggestions for giving the publication a good shape.

Thanks are also due to Sri S. B. Biswas, Sri. H. L. N. Bharati and Sri. V. Gopal for the excellent execution of the publication. Special mention must be made of Sri N. H. Itagi, who has very kindly designed the cover page. The authors express their grateful thanks to him. They are also thankful to Sri Kalegowda and Sri Rajkumar for typing the manuscript neatly. Thanks are due to the Printing Staff of the CIIL Printing Press.

K.V.V.L. Narasimharao
N. Nadaraja Pillai