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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s8.t3: XXXIII. Perumukkal

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s8.t3

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XXXIII. Perumukkal

c28.s8.t3.1

111.1 *irācar

c28.s8.t3.2

(n.) 'kings' (pl.). Cf. *rājan* (Skt.) 'king'.

c28.s8.t3.3

A label inscription of one word engraved near the much earlier megalithic rock carvings on the wall of the cave. The engraver, apparently a casual visitor to the cave, believed that the anthropomorphic figures depicted in the rock carvings represented 'kings'.

c28.s8.t3.4

This is one of the earliest instances in the Corpus of direct borrowing from Skt., rather than through Pkt. (See Etymological Indexes in Appendices V & VI.). See section 3.3.7.

c28.s8.t3.5

Cf. LT *irācamātēvi* 'chief queen' (*Maṇi.* 21:76).

c28.s8.t3.6

Cf. (inscr.) *irācakēcari* (< *rājakēsari*) 'title adopted alternately by the reigning Cōḻa kings' (*SII.* XIII: Intr. p. i).

c28.s8.t3.7

Note the addition of the prothetic vowel *i-* before the loanword commencing with the liquid consonant *r-*

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