MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY

MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) was established as a teaching cum affiliating University on September 7, 1990, which is spread over 550 acres. The university is named after the renowned Tamil poet scholar, Professor P. Sundaram Pillai (1855-1897), the author of the famous verse drama Manonmaniam. The tagline of the University is ‘Reaching the Unreached’. The emblem of the university is a shield supported by a banner. The shield holds the motifs of an elephant, gopuram, portrait of Sundaranar and a glowing sun above water. At the bottom, on a banner its motto in Tamil ‘அறிவே அனைத்து ஆற்றலும்’ meaning 'All the Power is Knowledge’. The shield symbolises protection, courage, heritage, authority and bravery; the gopuram symbolises the architectural heritage of the city of Tirunelveli; the elephant symbolises wisdom, strength and power; the sun symbolises life, energy, power, positivity, illumination, light and clarity and the water represents the Bay of Bengal Sea of the locale.