Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s22.t1.1

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s22.t1.1

Language
English

c23.s22.t1.1

The most frequent category of personal names in the inscriptions included in the Corpus is derived from appellative nouns which form a special category in Tamil to express various qualities or properties. They are derived from noun-, verb- or adjectival stems by the addition of pronominal suffixes.