Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s7.t9.27
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s7.t9.27
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c28.s7.t9.27
**c. *aṇṇi*** lit., 'elder brother's wife' (D. 131), employed here as an honorific suffix added to the name of a woman. Cf. Ka. *aṇṇi* 'affectionate mode of addressing females' (ibid.). See section 3.2.2(v). The honorific has been borrowed into Prakrit as *-(a)ṁṇikā*.