Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s7.t11: 4.6.11 Titles of other important personages

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The title *kō* is given to the head of the institution known as *kaṭikai*, an assembly of learned persons, in an inscription at Mannarkoil (No. **88**, ca. 2nd century A.D.). The title *kōṉ* is accorded, probably as an honorific, to a *kāviti* at Tirumalai (No. **52**, ca. 1st century A.D.) and to a chief of a village in the Pillaiyarpatti inscription (No. **117**, ca. 6th century A.D.). A member of a particular class of Vaiśya community is given the honorific *(i)ḷaṅkō* in an inscription at Mannarkoil (No. **89** ca. 2nd century A.D.). A chief of the village or its leading landowner or an eminent person of the place is referred to as *kiḻār* in the inscription at Ammankoyilpatti (No. **84**, ca. 4th century A.D.).