A multilingual Commentary of the First Verse of the Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana as found in ms. IFP RE22704 (Studies in Late Tamil Manipravalam Literature 1)

The article by Ciotti and Sathyanarayanan gives a glimpse into another much more recent example of Maṇipravāḷam from an unpublished commentary on the Amarakośa that attests to the versatility and potential fluidity of the Tamil language (it is also occasionally mixed with Telugu). Beyond the mixed linguistic register, this article points toward the lively interaction Tamil had with Sanskrit and provides an example of how works of one language were studied and explained through the medium of another.