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Upatēca.\* | \*Upatēcakāṇṭam\* (by Kōṉēriyappa Nāvalar) | \*Maṇi.\* | \*Maṇimēkalai\* | | | | \*Matu.\* | \*Maturaikkāñci\* | | \*Cilap.\* | \*Cilappatikāram\* | \*Malai.\* | \*Malaipaṭukaṭām\* | | \*Ciṟupāṇ.\* | \*Ciṟupāṇāṟṟuppaṭai\* | \*Mullai.\* | \*Mullaippāṭṭu\* | | \*Cīvaka.\* | \*Cīvakacintāmaṇi\* | \*Yacōtara.\* | \*Yacōtara Kāviyam\* | | \*Cūṭā.\* | \*Cūṭāmaṇi Nikaṇṭu\* | \*Yāpp. Virutti\* | \*Yāpparuṅkala Virutti\* | | \*Cūḷā.\* | \*Cūḷāmaṇi\* | \*Vacca.\* | \*Vaccaṇantimālai\* | | \*Ñāṉa. Upatēca.\* | \*Upatēcakāṇṭam\* (by Ñāṉavarōtayar) | \*Vāla.Koṅkumaṇṭala.\* | \*Koṅkumaṇṭala Catakam\* (by Vālacuntarakkaviñar) | | \*Tiruman.\* | \*Tirumantiram\* | \*Villi.\* | \*Villi Pāratam\* | | \*Tiruvā.\* | \*Tiruvācakam\* | \*Vivēka.\* | \*Vivēkacintāmaṇi\* | | \*Tiru. ulā\* | \*Tiruvārūr Ulā\* | \*\*comm.\*\* | \*\*commentary:\*\* | | \*Tivā.\* | \*Cēntaṉ Tivākaram Nikaṇṭu\* | \*Iḷam.\* | \*Iḷampūraṇar\* | | \*Tēvā.\* | \*Tēvāram\* | \*Caṅkara.\* | \*Caṅkaranamaccivāyar\* | | \*Tol.\* | \*Tolkāppiyam\* | \*Cēṉā.\* | \*Cēṉāvaraiyar\* | | \*(Eḻu., Col., Poruḷ.)\* | \*(Eḻuttatikāram,Cōllatikāram,\* \*Poruḷatikāram)\* | \*Nacc.\* | \*Nacciṉārkkiniyar\* | | | | \*Mayilai.\* | \*Mayilainātar\* | ### [c16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.3) Abbreviations (contd.) ### [c16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.4) Bibliographical: secondary sources and reference works ### [c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.5) | \*AMD\* | \*An Illustrated Ardha-Magadhi Dictionary\* | | \*ARE\* | \*Annual Reports on Epigraphy\* (published by the ASI) | | \*Bhārhut Inscrs.\* | \*Brāhmī Inscriptions from Bhārhut\* (\*CII.\* II, Part II) | | \*CII\* | \*Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum\* | | \*CIPK\* | \*Caṅka Ilakkiya Poruṭ Kaḷañciyam\* | | CNR | C. Narayana Rao 1938-39 | | D. | Prefixed to entries cited from \*DEDR\* | | \*DEDR\* | \*A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary\* (second edition) | | \*DPL\* | \*A Dictionary of the Pāli Language\* | | \*EI\* | \*Epigraphia Indica\* | | \*Epi. Car.\* | \*Epigraphia Carnatica\* | | HKS | H. Krishna Sastri 1919 | | \*HTS\* | \*History of Tamil Nadu: Sangam Age (Political)\* | | \*IAR\* | \*Indian Archaeology: A Review\* | | IM | I. Mahadevan 1968 (\*Corpus of the Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions 1966\*) | | \*Ind. Epi. Gl.\* | \*Indian Epigraphical Glossary\* | | \*IPS\* | \*Inscriptions (Texts) of the Pudukkottai State\* | | \*IPS(E)\* | \*Inscriptions in the Pudukkottai State\* (translated into English) | | \*JESI\* | \*Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India\* | | Kittel | \*A Kannada-English Dictionary\* (ed. F. Kittel) | | KVS | K.V. Subrahmanya Aiyer 1919 | | KZ | Kamil Zvelebil 1964 (1966) | | Lüders List | A List of Brāhmī inscriptions from the earliest times to about A.D. 400 with the exception of those of Asoka (Appendix to \*EI.\* X). | | Malala. | \*A Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names\* (ed. G.P. Malalasekara) | | MSV | Mayilai Seeni Venkataswamy 1981 | | MW | \*A Sanskrit-English Dictionary\* (ed. Monier Williams) | | \*Pallava Inscrs.\* | \*Inscriptions of the Pallavas\* | | \*Pallavar Ceppēṭukaḷ\* | \*Pallavar Ceppēṭukaḷ muppatu\* | | \*Pāṇṭiyar Ceppēṭukaḷ\* | \*Pāṇṭiyar Ceppēṭukaḷ pattu\* | | \*PED\* | \*A Pāli-English Dictionary\* (Pāli Text Society) | | \*Peru. Aka.\* | \*Peruñcol Akarāti\* | ### [c16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.6) Abbreviations (contd.) ### [c16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.7) Secondary sources and Reference works (contd.) ### [c16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.8) | \*PSM\* | \*Pāia-Sadda-Mahaṇṇavo\* (A Comprehensive Prakrit-Hindi Dictionary) | | Pulankurichi Inscrs. | Y. Subbarayalu and M.R. Raghava Varier 1991. | | RN | R. Nagaswamy 1972 d. | | RPS | R. Panneerselvam 1967 | | \*SII\* | \*South Indian Inscriptions\* | | \*SITI\* | \*South Indian Temple Inscriptions\* | | \*Tar.Ta.Aka.\* | \*Kriyāviṉ Taṟkāla Tamiḻ Akarāti\* | | \*TAS\* | \*Travancore Archaeological Series\* | | \*TL\* | \*Tamil Lexicon\* | | TVM | T.V.Mahalingam 1967 | ### [c16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.9) Languages ### [c16.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.10) | AMg. | Ardhamāgadhī | | Dr. | Dravidian | | Go. | Gondi | | IA | Indo-Aryan | | Ka. | Kannada | | LT | Literary Tamil | | Ma. | Malayalam | | MIA | Middle Indo-Aryan | | Pāli | | | PDr. | Proto-Dravidian | | Pkt. | Prakrit | | Sinh. | Sinhala | | Skt. | Sanskrit | | Ta. | Tamil | | Te. | Telugu | | To. | Toda | | Tu. | Tulu | ### [c16.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.11) Grammatical ### [c16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.12) | adj. | adjective | | C | consonant | | CV | syllable (consonant + vowel) | | fem. | feminine | | intj. | interjection | | masc. | masculine | | N. | Personal name | | n. | noun | | num. | numerical | | obl. | oblique | | P. | Place name | | pl. | plural | | PNG | person-number-gender | | pron. | pronoun, pronominal | | sing. | singular | | SOV | subject-object-verb | | V | vowel | | v. | verb | ### [c16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.13) Epigraphical ### [c16.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.14) | inscr(s). | inscription(s) | | L. | Line | | Ta.Br. | Tamil-Brāhmī | | TB I-III | Tamil-Brāhmī orthographic systems (see sections 6.4-6.10). | ### [c16.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.15) General ### [c16.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16.16) | ASI | Archaeological Survey of India | | DE | Office of the Director of Epigraphy, ASI, Mysore | | KSP | Kannada Sahitya Parishat | | PILC | Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture | | TNSA | Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology | --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16) · Pramāṇa