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'''Naṉṉūl''' ({{langx|ta|நன்னூல்}}) is a work on [[Tamil grammar]] written by a [[Jain]] ascetic<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&q=NANNUL+JAIN&pg=PA527 | title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections | first=K. Ayyappa | last=Paniker | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | year=1997 | isbn=9788126003655 | page=527 | access-date=21 August 2020 }}</ref> [[Pavananthi Munivar]] between 1178–1216.<ref name="Sadasivan2011">{{cite web|last=Sadasivan|first=M. P.|publisher=[[State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications]]|url=http://mal.sarva.gov.in/index.php?|title=Nannūl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820221313/http://mal.sarva.gov.in/index.php?title=%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D|url-status=live|archive-date=2014-08-20|access-date=2014-08-20|date=2011-01-13|language=Malayalam}}</ref> It is the most significant work on Tamil grammar after [[Tolkāppiyam]].<ref name="Sadasivan2011"/> The work credits [[Western Ganga dynasty|Western Ganga vassal king]] [[Seeya Gangan]] of [[Kolar, Karnataka|Kolar]] with patronising it.<ref name="Govindasamy1977">{{cite book|first=Muthusamy|last=Govindasamy|date=1977|title=A Survey of the Sources for the History of Tamil Literature|publisher=[[Annamalai University]]|page=189|quote=...he was a resident of Janajapuram (of [[Kancivaram]]) and [...] was patronised by Seeyangagan of Kolar (Mysore). Since Seeyangagan ruled in 1178–1216 the period of the work is evident.|oclc=5334976}}</ref><ref name="ITC1978">{{cite journal|publisher=[[University of Madras]]|journal=Bulletin of the Institute of Traditional Cultures|oclc=1714048|issn=0541-7562|title=Nannūl|date=January–June 1978|page=181|quote=One of the Ganga kings, Seeya Gangan, a contemporary of [[Kulōttunga III]] got Bhavananti to compose present Tamil standard grammar Nannūl.}}</ref><br />
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About 20 commentaries have been written on Nannūl up to 19th century CE.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Nannūl was divided into five sections: [[written language]], [[spoken language]], [[semantics]], poetic language and [[rhetorical device]]s. The latter three sections have been lost, so only the parts on written and spoken language are extant today.<ref name="Sadasivan2011"/><br />
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In Tamil, ''nal'' means good and ''nūl'' means ''book'', so ''Nannūl'' means ''good book''.<ref name="Sadasivan2011"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Karanthai]] Pavananthi munivar<br />
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* [http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1309/1/Nannool%20-%20Bavanandhi%20Munivar.pdf nannUl of pavaNanti munivar, edited by Dr. T. Malten, Inst. of Indology and Tamil Studies, Univ of Koeln, Germany]<br />
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