Toward formulating formal phonological rules of Tolkāppiyam-El̲uttatikāram

There are many unexpressed facts about Tolkāppiyam that I need more time to examine. I remember all the scholars who contributed in their own way either from the field of Tamil language or linguistics to enrich the tradition of Tolkāppiyam. There is no necessity to evaluate their works and fix them at different points on the scale of scholarship. Everyone contributed to the understanding of this great work in their own ways at different points of time. They used the research tools available in their time. Each generation is lucky to be placed in an advanced stage of development of knowledge. It is provided with rich tools of research to handle understand and solve the problems of research in its own research areas. That way our generation was introduced to the discipline of Linguistics that provided rich conceptual tools to understand the nature of language and the construction of the theories of language and grammar. The theories provided by the discipline Linguistics facilitated me to understand the nature of traditional grammar Tolkāppiyam. My seniors have already worked and come up with good results in the area of Tamil traditional grammar. Similarly, this research may help both the language researchers and computer scientists, especially programmers to work further and take this work to the next stage.