Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s5.3

c28.s5.3

**Headwords (in bold italics)** are listed as they occur in the Corpus in the order of inscriptions and the word order of each inscription. Each word is allotted a **Reference Number (in bold)** comprising the inscription number as in the Corpus followed by the word number in the inscription, separated by a dot. The inscriptional words which include composite names, noun phrases, etc., are segmented into minimal lexical units marked by alphabetic suffixes (a, b, c, etc.,) for further analysis; e.g., **46.2 *aṟuvai-vaṇikaṉ*** has two lexical segments: **a. *aṟuvai*** and **b. *vaṇikaṉ*.** When entries are repeated, detailed comments are made only on the first entry with cross references to it in later entries. The Inscriptional Glossary (Appendix I) arranged alphabetically serves as the reverse index to the Commentary.