Dear Colleagues,
Still busy with my notices of Tamil MSS from the Cambridge University Library, I sollicit again your help in identifying a text.
This is found in another paper MS donated by Percy Macqueen. It is an English translation entitled "Elder brother, younger Brother." What seems to be the original title is transcribed as "Mannudaya Goundam" and "Mannudaya Kavundan". I suppose this is Tamil maṇṇuṭaiya kavuṇṭaṉ.
It might be a translation of a printed book. The manuscript ends with the words "Here ends the book." But "book" may in fact just mean "work."
Personal names and place names mentioned in the translation are: Salvanathapuram, Arimalai, [M]aliu[r], Ponnachi, Seppulam.
Attached is a file with incipit and excipit.
As Mcqueen has been posted in Salem, the work of Brenda Beck on Kongudesa comes to mind.