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PREFACE

Conceiving that an orignal noval in Tamil delenieating pictures of modern Hindu life would suit the taste of my countrymen, in their present transition stage - a stage in which among other changes, old ideas are giving way to new ones and myths to facts - I have ventured to write and publish this little volume, in the hope that it may perhaps contribute to some small extent to that species of Tamil Literature which Modern Dravidian scholars aim at building up.

The tale is written not in prose after the model of European Novalists, but in an attractive popular form of verse, which our people are generally fond of.

The materials are taken from real life, but are glossed over a little with poetic varnish, and the language employed is simple and unpedantic.

PURSAVAKKAM. }
18th January, 1875 }

D. S.

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