Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s6.t9.10

c28.s6.t9.10

Cf. *udayana* (Skt.) 'N. of several kings and authors' (MW); *udayaṇa* (AMg.) 'N. of a prince, son of Satānīka, the king of Kauśāmbī' (PSM); LT *utayaṇaṉ*, hero of *Peruṅkatai* (ed. U.Ve. Swaminathaiyar, 5th edn., 1996). It is interesting that the inscriptional form *utayaṇa(ṉ)* is identical with the one occurring in the original manuscript, which has been altered by Swaminathaiyar to *utayaṇaṉ* (ibid. Intr. p. xxviii; see also R. Vijayalakshmy 1981: p. 1, note 2).