The Tamil word for grammar, naturalised from the Sanskrit lakshana. Zvelebil uses its appearance in the Tolkappiyam to date that work, since the relevant sense of lakshana enters with Patanjali.

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  The Tolkappiyam 's own term for the discipline of grammar is ilakkanam , which is the Sanskrit lakshana naturalised into Tamil.

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