Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s15.t3.10

c25.s15.t3.10

***-ku*: The case-ending *-ku* is added to the nouns as in *aracaṉ-ku*, *makaṉ-ku*, etc. The earlier reading of this letter as *-sha* produced strange forms like *arahaṇa-sha*, *mākaṇa-sha*, etc., not attested elsewhere. The letter looks like *-ku* and adopting this value yields meaningful expressions appropriate to the context and corresponding to the genitive forms in the Prakrit original with the case-ending *-sa* on the obverse.