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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s6.t1.100

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s6.t1.100

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c28.s6.t1.100

**3.8 piṇa-u** (n.) 'cave' (?). Not attested elsewhere in this sense; but cf. *piḷavu* 'cleft, crevice' (D. 4194). This particular cave is in fact hardly more than a cleft in the rock. The proposed interpretation is tentative.