Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t2.26
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t2.26
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c22.s2.t2.26
*cē-*: 'to make' (LT *cey*). The verb occurs in the forms *cē-iya*, *cēy-a*, *cētavar* and *cēvit-ōṉ*. The *cē-* forms occur fairly commonly in Tamil inscriptions.² In my view, it is not necessary to 'correct' the inscriptional forms like *cēta* as *ce(y)ta* and *cēvittāṉ* as *ce(y)vittāṉ*.