Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c29.s1.112

c29.s1.112

| ***nanta- siri-y ku-aṉ*** | 2.2 | N. of a senior Jaina monk. See also previous entry. |
| ***namōttu*** | 115.1 | 'Let there be salutation!' An invocation. Cf. (Skt.) *namō=(a)stu*. |
| ***nalmuḻa-ukai*** | 17.3 | (n.) 'auspicious cave'. Cf. LT *nal* 'good', *muḻai* 'cave'. |
| ***nalli-[y]-ūr-ā*** (*nalliyūr-*) | 66.1 | (P.) in genitive case; 'of Nalliyūr'. See section 7.27.4 on the use of *-ā* as genitive suffix. |
| ***nali-[y]-ūr-ā*** (*nalliyūr-*) | 65.1 | See previous entry. |
| ***nākapērūr*** | 56.1 | (P.) |
| ***nākaṉ*** | 48.2 | N. of a senior Jaina monk. |
| ***nāḻal*** (*nāḻal*) | 77.1 | (P.) Cf. LT *ñāḻal*/*nāḻal* 'a flowering tree'. |
| ***nikamatu*** (*nikamattu*) | 3.4 | (n., obl.); 'of the *nikama(m)*'. Cf. LT *nikamam* 'a caravan of merchants' (*TL*). See section 4.16.1. |
| ***nikamatōr*** (*nikamattōr*) | 6.2 | (n., pl.) 'members of a merchant guild'. |
| [***ni***\*]***citikai*** | 115.9 | (n.) 'seat of penance' (Jaina). |
| ***nicītikai*** | 116.6 | See previous entry. |
| ***nīr=aṉavāy*** | 120.2 | (noun phrase ). 'mouth' (*vāy*) of the 'dam' (*aṉa*) (across) a 'watercourse' (*nīr*). Cf. Ma. *aṉa*, Ta. *aṉai* 'dam'. |
| ***nūṟu*** | 16.3 | (num.) 'hundred'. |
| ***neṭiñcaḻiyaṉ*** | 2.5 | N. of a Pāṇṭiya king. Cf. LT *neṭuñceḻiyaṉ*. See section 4.2.1. |
| ***neṭuñcaliyaṉ*** | 1.5 | See previous entry. |
| ***neṭumalaṉ*** (*-mallaṉ*) | 42.2 | N. of a *gur* merchant. |
| ***nel*** | 16.5 | (n.) 'paddy'. See section 4.15.1. |
| ***nelveḷi-iy*** | 7.1 | (P.) Cf. LT *nel* 'paddy'; *veḷi* 'open space, field'. |
| ***nōṟṟa*** | 116.3 | (v.) 'who observed the penance'. |
| ***nōṟṟu*** | 115.7 | (v.) 'having observed the penance'. |
| ***paṇa-aṉ*** | 1.6 | (n.) 'servant'; here, a high functionary serving under the king. Cf. LT *paṇavaṉ*. |
| ***patantaṉ*** | 60.3 | (n.) 'the venerable one'; title of a Jaina monk. Cf. (Pkt.) *bhadanta*. See section 4.9.3 (iv). |
| ***patiṉ-[ū]r*** (*patiṉūr*) | 30.1 | (P.) Cf. LT *patiṉ-*, bound form of *pattu* 'ten'; *ūr* 'village'. |
| ***pamitti*** (*pammitti*) | 41.3 | (n.) 'Jaina nun'. Cf. LT *pammai*, *paimmai*, *paimai* id. See section 4.9.4 (i). |
| ***par-acu*** (*paracu*) | 9.2 | N. of a Jaina *upādhyāya*. Cf. LT *paracu* (v.) 'to praise, extol'. See section 6.19.2 for the pause. |
| ***parampaṉ-kōkūr*** | 84.1 | (P.) Cf. LT *parampu* 'flat land' (or) *parampaṉ* 'a class of cultivators'. |
| ***palpuli*** | 118.1 | (P.) Cf. LT *pal-* 'many'; *puli* 'tiger(s)'. |