Tholkáppiyam is an age-old work of Tamil grammar passed down to the Tamils. Moreover, it is the primal one among all the works on grammar available in the world. Persons like Airavatham Mahadevan, who spitefully foxtrot in the field of Tamil research, are causing muddles by pushing down the date of Tholkáppiyam to a few hundred years. Tamil academics and the dons reigning over the universities hear me not saying through my work Tholkáppiyathin Kálam (Date of Tholkáppiyam) that Tholkáppiyam is 7,000 years old.

Seen in the setting of the Serbian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch’s (1879-1958) cycle of seasons, Tholkáppiyam, in fact, appears to be 11,000 years old.Those who do not know the basics of astronomy may not grasp the Milankovitch Cycles so easily, and it necessitates presenting those basics, before we delve into the topic.