Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t7.4

c22.s3.t7.4

To illustrate, loanwords occurring in the Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscriptions in the Corpus (Table 3.4) appear to be borrowed directly from Sanskrit. The same situation obtains in later Tamil inscriptions and in Literary Tamil, with the earlier layer of borrowings from Prakrit and the later layers increasingly from Sanskrit.