Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s6.t18.3

c28.s6.t18.3

**a. *satiya*-** Cf. LT *atiyaṉ*; N. of the famous family of chieftains of Takaṭūr. As Burrow points out (1968 b: p. 159), *atiya-* (<*satiya-/*\**catiya-*) must be a native name and cannot be connected with *satya* (Skt.) 'true'. Ta. *atiya-* may also be derived directly from Dr. *catiya* with the loss of the initial palatal. An interesting confirmation of this deduction made on linguistic grounds comes from a Pkt. inscription at Amaravati: *cātiyaputānaṃ* 'of the Cātiya-putras' (C. Sivaramamurti 1977: No. 39, ca. 100 A.D.). Sivaramamurti's translation is 'sons of Catiya'; however, most probably, the term *-putānaṃ* means 'of the members of a tribe' here also as in *satiyaputō* in the Asokan Edicts. See **-putō** below.