Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c13: Chapter 4
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c13
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Chapter 4
c13.1
| 4.1. Sculpture of two Jaina Tirthankaras. Muttuppatti. | 138 |
| 4.2. Sculpture of twentyfour Jaina Tirthankaras. Tirunatharkunru. | 138 |
| 4.3. A Roman ship calling at Alagankulam. Graffito on pottery. | 154 |
| 4.4. A *mithuna* couple engraved on a gold ring. Karur. | 154 |
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| 5.1. Minor Rock Edict of Asoka at Brahmagiri. Karnataka. | 174 |
| 5.2. An inscribed casket from Bhattiprolu. Andhra Pradesh. | 174 |
| 5.3. Pottery inscription from Kodumanal: use of ḍ as ḷ. | 188 |
| 5.4. Pottery inscription from Arikamedu: use of reversed ḍ as ḷ. | 188 |
| 5.5. Cave inscription in Sri Lanka with Tamil-Brāhmī *ḷ* (detail). | 188 |
| 5.6. Forms of *ḷ* in Early Southern scripts. | 192 |
| 5.7. Cave inscription in Sri Lanka with Tamil-Brāhmī *ṟ* (detail). | 192 |
| 5.8. Cave inscription in Sri Lanka with Tamil-Brāhmī *ṉ* (detail). | 192 |
| 5.9. Silver portrait coins of the Sātavāhanas with Prakrit and Tamil legends. | 200 |
| 5.10. Tamil-Brāhmī characters in Sātavāhana coin-legends. | 204 |
| 5.11. Symbols in cave inscriptions. | 207 |
| 5.12. Pottery graffiti from Kodumanal with cave symbols. | 207 |
| 5.13. Juxtaposition of script and symbols in pottery graffiti from Kodumanal. | 207 |
| 5.14. Seal with script and symbols from Anaikoddai. Jaffna, Sri Lanka. | 208 |
| 5.15. Signs of the Indus script resembling cave symbols. | 208 |
| 5.16. Pallava Grantha and Tamil inscriptions. Sendalai. | 208 |
c13.5
| 6.1. A casket inscription from Bhattiprolu. | 228 |
| 6.2. Medial vowel notation in the Bhattiprolu script. | 228 |
| 6.3. Medial vowel notations in the Mauryan, Bhattiprolu and Tamil-Brāhmī scripts. | 232 |
| 6.4. Chronology of medial vowel notations in the Corpus. | 232 |