taṇṭi (p. 222) s. A celebrated poet, one of the nine gems or celebrated authors in the court of king Bojas, and authors of a work on rhetoric, which has been translated from Sanscrit into Tamil and called தண்டியலங்காரம், ஓர்புலவன். 2. One of the sixty-three devotees of Siva; also called தண்டோன். 3. Another of the sixty-three devotees of Siva, called தண்டியடிகள், said to have been born blind, and afterward, to have received sight, ஓர்சிவனடியான். தண்டியலங்காரம், s. A treatise on rhetoric, comprising thirty-five figures, ஓர்நூல். 67)