[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) › c27.s12.2 # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s12.2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s12.2 - **Language:** English ### [c27.s12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s12.2) | \*aṟuvai-vaṇikaṉ\* | 'cloth merchant' | 46.2.a-b | | \*iḷanataṉ\* | | 17.1.a-b | | \*u(p)pu-vāṇikaṉ\* | 'salt merchant' | 39.1.a-b | | \*eṇṇai-vāṇṇikaṉ\* (- \*vāṇikaṉ\*) | 'oil merchant' | 70.1.a-c | | \*erumināṭu\* | | 49.1.a-b | | \*eḷamakaṉ\* | 'a clan name' | 56.5.a-b | | \*kaṇimāṉ\* | | 73.1.a-b | | \*koḷu-vaṇikaṉ\* | 'ironmonger' | 43.1.a-b | | \*ciṟuceṇṇaṉ\* | | 106.1.a-b | | \*neṭuma(l)laṉ\* | | 42.2.a-b | | \*poṉ-vāṇikaṉ\* | 'gold merchant' | 69.2.a-b | - [Previous: c27.s12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s12.1) - [Next: c27.s13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s13.1) - [Up: c27.s12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s12.2) · Pramāṇa