Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t2.18

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c22.s2.t2.18

*antai*: a frequent honorific affix (masc.). It occurs also as an independent word in the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions and once in a later Tamil inscription, but only as a bound suffix in Literary Tamil. *antai* is arguably the most significant of the 'lost' words in Old Tamil recovered through the decipherment of the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions. This has led to two important results in linguistic and historical studies:

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