Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s1.t10.90
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s1.t10.90
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c28.s1.t10.90
| **ILL.** | Tracing: Fig. 8.21. Estampage: Pl. 19. |
| **Locus** | On the brow of the cave, below the lower drip ledge; the seventh segment of the long line. |
| **No. of lines** | 1 |
| **Length** | Approximately 136 cm. (extant). |
| **Date** | ca. 1st century B.C. |
| **Publ.** | *ARE* 75-76/1910; *ARE* 1917-18:Pl. facing p. 6. IM:39-40/1966. |
| | CNR:X-H (pp. 373-374); HKS:X-H (pp. 344-346); *HTS*:10.8 & 9 (pp. 50-54, 84-87); |
| | KVS:XIII (p. 299); KZ:10-H (pp. 22-23); MSV:6.8 & 6.9 (pp. 59-60); RN:9.10 & 9.11 |
| | (pp. 59-61); RPS:29 & 30 (pp. 163-197); TVM:7-VIII (pp. 236-244, Pl. 13 bottom left). |
| **Notes** | |
| 1. | The commencement of the inscription is lost due to flaking of the stone. |
| 2. | The letter appears to be incomplete and is read tentatively. |
| 3. | HKS reads *ṭṭha* and KVS *ṟa*. |
| 4. | HKS reads *ṭū* and KVS *ṟa*. |
| 5. | There is no symbol after this letter. (The pair of symbols in KVS seems to be a typographical error.) There is a gap of about 15 cm. between this and the next inscription (No. **45**) in the same line. |
| 6. | A fragmentary word which cannot be interpreted. |
| 7. | *kaḻu-* probably a variant of *kaṭu*. Cf. *eḻai-* for LT *iṭai* (n.4, No. **34**); *māṟa-* from Māṟaṉ, a Pāṇṭiya dynastic name. Cf. Kaṭumāṉ Māṟaṉ, N. of a Pāṇṭiya king. See section 4.2.3. |
| 8. | See n.1, No. **17**. |
| 9. | *tāra-aṇi-* is probably the drip ledge below which the inscription is engraved. Cf. *cala-tārai*, *nīr-t-tārai* (TL). See Commentary for the interpretation. |
| 10. | *koṭuppitta-avaṉ* (cf. LT *koṭuppittavaṉ*). |