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'''Nacciṇārkkiṇiyar''', also spelled '''Naccinarkkiniyar''' or '''Nachinarkiniyar''', was a 14th-century [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Sanskrit]] scholar famous for his commentaries on [[Sangam literature]] and post-Sangam medieval Tamil literature.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=24, 34, 51, 257}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Allen|title=Coromandel: A Personal History of South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5xBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT100 |year=2017|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-1-4087-0540-7|pages=100–101}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Emmrich | first=Christoph | title=The Ins and Outs of the Jains in Tamil Literary Histories | journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy | publisher=Springer | volume=39 | issue=6 | year=2011 | doi=10.1007/s10781-011-9125-0 | pages=599–646}}</ref> His commentary on some of the most studied Tamil texts such as the ''[[Tolkappiyam]]'',{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|p=135}} ''[[Kuruntokai]]'' and ''[[Civaka Cintamani]]'' have guided scholarship that followed him, including modern era studies of Tamil literature.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|pp=24, 34, 51}} According to [[Kamil Zvelebil]], a Tamil literature scholar, Naccinarkiniyar had a "keen poetic sense, awareness of word values". He vividly analyzed the primary text and secondary literature on that primary text, in a sophisticated impartial manner seen in modern era scholarship. He paid attention to minute details with a critical observation, states Zvelebil, and Naccinarkiniyar's work shows "a clear mind and a vast erudition" of Tamil and Sanskrit works.{{sfn|Kamil Zvelebil|1973|p=257}}<br />
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Naccinarkiniyar was a [[Brahmin]] of the [[Shaivism]] tradition of [[Hinduism]].<ref name="tamilplutarchp57">[[#The Tamil Plutarch|The Tamil Plutarch]], Pg 57</ref> Nacinarkiniyar wrote commentaries on the [[Tolkāppiyam]], [[Pattuppāṭṭu]], [[Kaliththokai]], [[Kuṟuntokai]] and [[Civaka Cintamani]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Ten Medieval Commentators]]<br />
* [[Commentaries in Tamil literary tradition]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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=== Bibliography ===<br />
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*{{cite book | title=The Tamil Plutarch, containing a summary account of the lives of poets and poetesses of Southern India and Ceylon | last=Chitty| first=Simon Casie| year=1859| publisher=Ripley & Strong| location=Jaffna|ref=The Tamil Plutarch}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=A critical study of Naccinarkiniyar|author=K. Arumugham|year=1981|publisher=University of Madras}}<br />
*{{cite book|author1=Tolkāppiyar|author2=P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri|title=Tolkāppiyam: Poruḷatikāram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lodkAAAAMAAJ |year=1999|publisher=Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute|isbn=978-81-85170-27-5}}<br />
*{{cite book| author=K A Nilakanta Sastri|title=A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCQLAQAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=David Shulman|title=Tamil: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fG8NDQAAQBAJ |year=2016|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-97465-4}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=Takanobu Takahashi|title=Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgCHuVGyZoEC|year=1995|publisher=BRILL Academic|isbn=90-04-10042-3}}<br />
*{{cite book| author=Eva Maria Wilden|title=Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KuPmBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|year=2014|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-035276-4}}<br />
* {{citation|author=Kamil Zvelebil|title=The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=degUAAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-03591-5}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Companion studies to the history of Tamil literature|author=Kamil Zvelebil | author-link=Kamil Zvelebil|year=1992|pages=73|publisher=BRILL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAPtq49DZfoC&pg=PA73|isbn=90-04-09365-6}}<br />
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