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tian era, their influence could not touch even the fringe of the Tamilian mind, So strongly did the mind of the cultured Tamil people cling to the realities of life and existence, that the Aryan rites and myths, and the Buddhist and Jain nihilism could find no entrance into it, great as had been their efforts to achieve it. But the modern Mayavada Vedanta and Vaishnavism which came to spread here after the 8th century A.D., achieved what their predecessors could not achieve, simply by fabricating fictitious, obscene, and licen- tious Puranic stories and thus catching the fancy of the Tamil people. This influx of the Aryan falsehood into Tamil led to the formation of a class of literature which is notorious for the most degraded type of Puranic religion Saiva, Sakta and Vaishnava. To the best of my ability I have endeavoured in the following treatise to sift this mongrel mixture and disentangle the golden truths of Saiva religion from the empty falsehoods of other novel religions. The task is no easier one and it cannot further be appreciated even by the Saivites whose mind is dyed deep in the Aryan myths. Still I have candidly executed it in the interest of the ancient, and genuine. Tamilian thought, and am emboldened in its execution by the prospect of a rising generation devoted solely to the cause of truth. May the glory of Lord Siva the almighty God of the universe shine for ever!
The Sacred Order of Love
Pallavaram,
12th May, 1929.
VEDACHALAM.
