Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s6.t15.16

c28.s6.t15.16

The present instance provides the earliest inscriptional attestation of the tendency to add the euphonic *-u* suffix to words ending in liquid consonants. Other instances in the Corpus belong to a later period (**83.3, 85.2, 112.1.b, 114.2.b, 116.5, 117.1.c & 119.2.a**). (Cf. A. Velu Pillai 1976:pp. 19 and 25, note 10. He attributes the tendency to the influence of Kannada or Telugu.)