Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s7.t6.2

c23.s7.t6.2

In the Sinhala-Brāhmī inscriptions, a number of officials are mentioned with the designation *adika* who were placed in charge of various departments of the state.¹ The Pallava kingdom in the Tamil country had also officials known as *adhika* in charge of different departments of the state or of the provinces.² The Pallava administration has been compared in this respect with the Mauryan, "rather than (that) prevalent in the Tamil country".³ It now appears that the Pāṇṭiya kingdom also possessed an administrative organisation resembling at least in some respects those of the Mauryan in the north and Sri Lanka in the south during this period.