Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s7.t3.19

c28.s7.t3.19

The inscription is engraved just below two post holes cut deeply into the brow of the cave. The post holes, square in section and unusually large, must have been made to insert square wooden beams to support a substantial structure like a canopy (no longer extant) in front of the cave. Further the text ***āci ceyitāṉ tacaṉ*** indicates that *āci* was some wooden object made by a carpenter.