[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.s24.2 # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s24.2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s24.2 - **Language:** English ### [c27.s24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s24.2) | Two: | \*iru-\* | \*avviru-a-ar-um\* 'those two persons also' | 45.3.b | | | | \*iruvar\* 'two persons' | 48.5 | | | | (both from \*iru-\* bound form of \*iraṇṭu\* 'two') | | | Three: | | This number is uniquely represented by a figure comprising three short horizontal parallel strokes. (See section 5.16.) | 76.7.b | | Five: | \*aim-\* | bound form of \*aintu\* 'five' | 116.1.a | | | | See 'fifty-seven' below. | | | Seven: | \*ēḻ-\* | \*ēḻur\* (\*ēḻūr\*) 'a place name' | 121.1.a | | | | bound form of \*ēḻu\* | | | | | See also 'fifty-seven' below. | | | Ten: | \*patt-\* | bound form of \*pattu\* 'ten' | 116.1.b | | | | See 'fifty-seven' below. | | | | \*patiṉ-\* | \*patiṉ-ūr\* 'a place name' | 30.1.a | | | | \*patiṉ-\* is a bound form of \*pattu\*. | | | Fifty-seven: | | \*aimpattēḻ(u)\* | 116.1 | | Hundred: | | \*nūṟu\* | 16.3 | - [Previous: c27.s24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s24.1) - [Next: c27.s25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s25.1) - [Up: c27.s24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s24) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s24.2) · Pramāṇa