| ABBREVIATION | NAME OF THE BOOK | AUTHOR | PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION |
| (A) | Quinze Cents Plantes dans L'inde. | Achart, A. Dj. | Imprimerie Des Miissions Etrangeres, Pondicherry, 1905. |
| (A.M.) | The English-English-Tamil Dictionary. | Mootootamby Phillay, A | The Navalar Press, Jaffna, 1911, 2nd Edition. |
| (B.) | Some Madras Trees | Butterworth, A | The Methodist Publishing House, Madras 1911. |
| (C. & T.) | Castes and Tribes of South Inida | Edgar Thurston | The Government Press, Madras, 1909. |
| (C. E. M.) | Terms form the College of Engineering Manual. | Ms. | |
| (C. E. P) | Civil Engineering Papers. | The Higginbothams, Ltd., Madras, 1869. | |
| (C. G.) | Classified Glossary | Sivaramaiya, C. | The Progressive Press, 1908. |
| (D.) | The Useful Plants of India | Drury, H. | William H. Allen & Co., London, 1873, 2nd Edition. |
| (E. C.) | Epigraphica Carnatika | The Mysore Government Publication | Government Press Mysore. |
| (E. I.) | Epigraphica India | Government of India Publication | Government Press Madras. |
| (E. T.) | Castes and Tribes of South India. | Edgar Thurston | Government Press Madras 1909. |
| (F.) or (F.B.) | A Malabar and English Dictionary. | Johann Philip Fabricius and John Christian Breithaupt | Vepery, Madras 1809. |
| (F.) or (F.Mad.) | List of Vernacular names of fishes of the Madras Presidency. | Madras Government Publication | Government Press, Madras. |
| (F.N.) | List of names of fishes | Sir Frederick Nicholson. | Ms. |
| (G.. D) | Gazetter .. District | Madras Government Publication | Government Press, Madras. |
| (H. J.) | Hobson Jobson: A Clossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases and of kindred terms | Yule, C.H. and Burnell, A. C. | Edited by William Crooke, B.A., and published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1903. |
| (H. C. M) | Hindu Caste Marks and Ornments of the Madrasi | W. Rae Sheriffs | Madras Christian College Magazine, September 1919. |
| (I. M.P.) | Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency | Madras Government Publication | Government Press, Madras. 1919. |
| (I. P.) | Five Hundred Indian Plants - Their Use in Medicine and the Arts. | Pfleiderer, I. | Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository, Mangalore, 1908, 2nd Edition. |
| (Insc. Pudu. St.) | Inscriptions of the Pudukkottai State. | Published by the Pudukkottai State. | Sri Brhadamba State press, Pudukkottai, 1929. |
| (K. R.) | A manual of Elementary Botany for India. | Rangachari, K. .... | The Government Press Madras, 1916. |
| (L.) | Vernacular List of Trees, Shrubs and woody Climbers in the Madras Presidency. | Lushington, A. W | The Government Press Madras, 1915. |
| (M. .. D.) | Manual .. District | Madras Government Publication. | The Government Press Madras, |
| (M .E. R.) | Madras Epigraphical Reports. | Madras Government Publ.ication. | The Government Press Madras, 1916. |
| (M. L.) | List of Medical Terms | Surgon-General, Madras | MS. |
| (M. Navi.) | Manual of Navigation | P. Mortimer Kulasekaram. | St. Joseph's Industrial School Press, Colombogam, Jaffna, 1917. |
| (M. M.) | Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency | Madras Government Publ.ication. | The Government Press Madras, 1893. |
| (Nels.) | Madura Manual | Nelson | The Government Press Madras, 1893. |
| (Or. Mss. Cat) | Catalogue of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library | ..... | The Government Press Madras, 1893. |
| (P.) | A Hand-book of the Ordinary Dialect of the Tamil Language. | Pope, G. U. | The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1905, 7th Edition. |
| Pd. M. | Pudukkottai Manual | Published by the Pudukkottai State. | Sri Brhadamba State Press, Pudukkottai. |
| (R. ) | A Dictionary of the Tamil Languages. | Rottler, Dr. | Vepery, 1834 - 37. |
| (R. F) | List of Revenue Terms in use in South India | Robert Fischer | MS. |
| (R. T) | List of Revenue Terms | Sundararaja Aiyangar, | MS. |
| Rd. M. | Ramnad Manual | S. Rajaram Rao, T. (Diwan of Ramnad) | Published by the Ramnad State. |
| (S. I. I.) | South Indian Inscriptions. | Madras Government Publications | Government Press, Madras |
| (T. A. S.) | Travancore Archaeological Series. | Travancore Government Publications | Methodist Publishing House, Madras, 1910 - 13. |
| (T.A.S. H.O.P.) | Travancore Archaeological Series-Huzur Office Plate. | Travancore Government Publications | Methodist Publishing House, Madras, 1910 - 13. |
| (T. B.) | The Tamil Bible | Travancore Government Publications | S.P.C.K. Press, Madras, 1909 |
| (T. B. D.) | The Tamil Bible Dictionary | Clatton, A. C. | The C.L.S., Madras, 1909. |
| (Tam.) | The Tamil Eighteen Hundred Yers Ago | Kanakasabhi, V. | The Higginbothams Ltd., Madras. 1904 |
| (Tr. M.) | Travancore Manual | Travancore Government Publication | Methodist Press, Madras. |
| (Tr. Rev. M.) | Travancore Revenue Manual. | Travancore Government Publication | Methodist Press, Madras. |
| (W.) | A Comprehensive Tamil-English Dictionary. | Winslow, M. | The American Mission Press, Madras, 1862. |
| (W. G.) | Wilson's Glossary | Wilson | W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1855 |
| (Watt.) | The Commercial Products of India. | Sir George Watt | Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd., London, 1908. |