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Nacciṇārkkiṇiyar, also spelled Naccinarkkiniyar or Nachinarkiniyar, was a 14th-century Tamil and Sanskrit scholar famous for his commentaries on Sangam literature and post-Sangam medieval Tamil literature. His commentary on some of the most studied Tamil texts such as the Tolkappiyam, Kuruntokai and Civaka Cintamani have guided scholarship that followed him, including modern era studies of Tamil literature. 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.

Naccinarkiniyar was a Brahmin of the Shaivism tradition of Hinduism. Nacinarkiniyar wrote commentaries on the Tolkāppiyam, Pattuppāṭṭu, Kaliththokai, Kuṟuntokai and Civaka Cintamani.

See also

• Ten Medieval Commentators
• Commentaries in Tamil literary tradition

References

1. Kamil Zvelebil 1973, pp. 24, 34, 51, 257.
2. Charles Allen (2017). Coromandel: A Personal History of South India. Little, Brown Book Group. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-4087-0540-7.
3. Emmrich, Christoph (2011). "The Ins and Outs of the Jains in Tamil Literary Histories". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 39 (6). Springer: 599–646. doi:10.1007/s10781-011-9125-0.
4. Kamil Zvelebil 1973, p. 135.
5. Kamil Zvelebil 1973, pp. 24, 34, 51.
6. Kamil Zvelebil 1973, p. 257.
7. The Tamil Plutarch, Pg 57

Bibliography

• Chitty, Simon Casie (1859). The Tamil Plutarch, containing a summary account of the lives of poets and poetesses of Southern India and Ceylon. Jaffna: Ripley & Strong.
• K. Arumugham (1981). A critical study of Naccinarkiniyar. University of Madras.
• Tolkāppiyar; P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri (1999). Tolkāppiyam: Poruḷatikāram. Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute. ISBN 978-81-85170-27-5.
• K A Nilakanta Sastri (1966). A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. Oxford University Press.
• David Shulman (2016). Tamil: A Biography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-97465-4.
• Takanobu Takahashi (1995). Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics. BRILL Academic. ISBN 90-04-10042-3.
• Eva Maria Wilden (2014). Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-035276-4.
• Kamil Zvelebil (1973), The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-03591-5
• Kamil Zvelebil (1992). Companion studies to the history of Tamil literature. BRILL. p. 73. ISBN 90-04-09365-6.

• Tamil-language writers
• 14th-century Indian philosophers
• Medieval Tamil poets