Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s31.t3: 7.28.3 Causative verbs

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A characteristic feature of the verbs in the Corpus is the relative abundance of the causative forms of transitive verbs, which signify that someone gets something done by someone else ('cause to be done'). A typical case is when the donor of a cave gets the stonemason to carve the stone beds. While causative verbs occur in LT, their higher relative frequency in the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions appears to be the result of the influence of inscriptional Prakrit.