Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.
Corpus of Tamil-Brāhmī cave and other inscriptions with readings, translations, palaeography, grammar and glossary.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Iravatham Mahadevan
- Extent
- 6,038 passages, 176,683 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Cre-A, Chennai / Harvard Oriental Series 62, 2003; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and… · In copyright (Iravatham Mahadevan †2018); freely available on archive.org, worldgenweb.org — shown with…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 11 parts
- c2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. — 12 parts
- c3 Contents — 1 part
- c4 Preface — 11 parts
- c5 Introduction — 8 parts
- c6 Acknowledgements — 16 parts
- c7 Credits for Illustrations — 38 parts
- c8 Detailed Table of Contents — 21 parts
- c9 List of Tables — 5 parts
- c10 Maps — 2 parts
- c11 Palaeographic Charts — 2 parts
- c12 List of Figures — 3 parts
- c13 Chapter 4 — 3 parts
- c14 List of Tracings of Inscriptions — 2 parts
- c15 List of Estampages of Inscriptions — 2 parts
- c16 Abbreviations — 16 parts
- c17 Scheme of Transliteration and Diacritical Marks — 12 parts
- c18 Table of Conventional Symbols — 19 parts
- c19 Part One: Early Tamil Inscriptions — 1 part
- c20 1. Discovery — 18 parts
- c21 2. Decipherment — 19 parts
- c22 3. Language — 3 parts
- c23 4. Polity — 27 parts
- c24 Part Two: Studies in Early Tamil Epigraphy — 1 part
- c25 5. Palaeography — 21 parts
- c26 6. Orthography — 22 parts
- c27 7. Grammar — 49 parts
- c28 Part Three: Corpus of Early Tamil Inscriptions — 39 parts
- c29 Appendices — 12 parts
- c30 Bibliography — 313 parts
- c31 General Index — 79 parts