Abstract

Speakers of Tamil – there are at present 60 million, mostly in South India – like to define their language as the ‘Second Classical Language of India.’ This implicit comparison that they make with Sanskrit is based on the existence of a corpus of ancient texts, both literary and theoretical, the exact date of which is still controversial.

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