Complex sentence: However, the great Tamil lexicographer Vaiyapuri Pillai had ascribed later dates to many of these works which would refute the link between the Kalabhras and the Eighteen Minor works.
Split into simpler sentences: However, the great Tamil lexicographer Vaiyapuri Pillai had ascribed later dates to many of these works. This theory would undermine the link between the Kalabhras and the Eighteen Minor works.