Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s17.t4: 6.17.4 A special orthographic convention for doubling of consonants
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s17.t4
- Language
- English
6.17.4 A special orthographic convention for doubling of consonants
c26.s17.t4.1
Doubling of consonants in the inscriptions does not follow the rules of grammar in some cases.² As such usage is also seen in later Tamil inscriptions,³ they should not be dismissed as 'scribal errors', but regarded as an orthographic convention of the inscriptional language:
c26.s17.t4.2
(e.g.) *amaṇṇaṉ* (for *amaṇaṉ*) (61.²),
*kuṟṟaṉ* - *aṟupitta* (for *kuṟṟaṉ aṟuppitta*) (63.4-5).
c26.s17.t4.3
² Ibid.