Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t5.14
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t5.14
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c22.s3.t5.14
(iv) *Loanwords from Sinhala-Prakrit* While most of the loanwords in the Tamil-Brāhmī cave inscriptions are naturally from Indian Prakrits, there are a couple of items for which Sinhala inscriptional Prakrit seems to be the proximate source.