Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s1.t8.125
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s1.t8.125
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c28.s1.t8.125
| **ILL.** | Tracing: Fig. 8.15. Estampage: Pl. 14. |
| **Locus** | On the third stone bed in the upper row. KVS has mixed up the order and segmentation of the inscriptions on the third to fifth beds (Nos. 27-29). |
| **No. of lines** | 1 |
| **Length** | 53 cm. |
| **Date** | ca. 2nd century B.C. |
| **Publ.** | *ARE* 45-c/1908; *ARE* 1911-12:Pl. facing p. 50. IM:20/1966. |
| | CNR:VIII-G (pp. 371-372); HKS:VIII-G (pp. 342-343); *HTS*:6.3 (pp. 48-49, 78-82); |
| | KVS:XI-6 & 7 (p. 298); KZ:8-F (p. 22); MSV:12.6 (pp. 102-109); RN:5.3 (pp. 56-57); |
| | RPS:16 (pp. 163-197); TVM:10.7 (pp. 258-266, Pl. 18 middle left). |
| **Notes** | |
| 1. | These two letters are incompletely engraved. It is probable that the scribe who marked the letters, and the stonemason who engraved them, were different persons. See also n.6, No. 85. |
| 2. | HKS reads *dhi* and KVS *ti*. |
| 3. | Variant of *matirai*. See n.2, No. 24. |
| 4. | *vissuvaṇ*. Cf. LT *viccuvaṇ*. See Commentary for etymology. |