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Bibliographical data for Tamil literary texts cited in this volume (see Abbreviations) are not included in the bibliography except where comments or notes by the editors are cited or where the publications are not included in the source cited below. See \*Peruñcol Akarāti\*, vol.I: pp. lxiii-cxxviii for recent bibliographical data on standard editions of the literary works. ### [c30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.3) 3. Madras has been renamed Chennai. However, the names Madras and Chennai are both retained here for publications in English and Tamil respectively following the earlier usage. ### [c30.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.4) Abdul Majeed, A., \*et al.\* 1992. \*Alagankulam: A Preliminary Report.\* Madras: Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology. ### [c30.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.5) Agesthialingom, S. 1977. \*A Grammar of Old Tamil with Special Reference to Patiṟṟuppattu.\* Annamalainagar: Annamalai University. ### [c30.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.6) Allchin, F. R. 1995. \*The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States.\* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ### [c30.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.7) Andronov, M. 1969. \*A Standard Grammar of Modern and Classical Tamil.\* Madras: New Century Book House. ### [c30.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.8) \*Apitāṉa Maṇimālai\* 1988. By Tiruvampala-tt-iṟamutam Piḷḷai. S. Balasaranathan (ed.) Chennai: U. Ve. Swaminathaiyar Library. ### [c30.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.9) Barnett, L. D. 1915-16. Two Inscriptions from Belgaum, now in the British Museum. \*Epigraphia Indica\* 13: 15-36. ### [c30.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.10) Begley, Vimala 1983. Arikamedu Reconsidered. \*American Journal of Archaeology\* 87: 461-482. ### [c30.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.11) (\*et al.\*) 1996. \*The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches 1989-1992.\* Vol. 1. Mémoires Archéologiques 22. Pondicherry: Centre d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, École Française d'Extrême-Orient. ### [c30.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.12) 1997. The Dating of Arikamedu and its Bearing on the Archaeology of Early Historical South India. (To be published posthumously.) Paris: In \*Prof. François Gros Felicitation Volume\* 2003. ### [c30.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.13) Begley, Vimala and Richard Daniel De Puma (eds.) 1991. \*Rome and India: The Ancient Sea Trade.\* Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ### [c30.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.14) Bopearachchi, Osmund, Harry Falk and Rajah Wickremesinhe 2000. Earliest Inscribed Coins, Moulds, Seals and Sealings from Tissamaharama (Sri Lanka). \*The Numismatic Chronicle\* 160: 117-134. ### [c30.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.15) Bose, C. 1981. \*Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam.\* Chennai: Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology. ### [c30.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.16) Bühler, Georg 1892. New Jaina Inscriptions from Mathura. \*Epigraphia Indica\* 1: 371-397. 1894a. Further Jaina Inscriptions from Mathura. \*Epigraphia Indica\* 2: 195-212. 1894b. The Bhattiprolu Inscriptions. \*Epigraphia Indica\* 2: 323-329. 1896 (1959). \*Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300\*. Translated by J. F. Fleet. (Reprinted in) \*Indian Studies Past and Present\* 1 (1): 1-139. ### [c30.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.17) Burgess, J. 1894. Preface. \*Epigraphia Indica\* 2: ix-xiii. ### [c30.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.18) Burnell, A. C. 1874 (1968). \*Elements of South Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. Being an Introduction to the Study of South Indian Inscriptions and Mss.\* London: Trübner & Co. Reprint. Varanasi: Indological Book House. ### [c30.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.19) Burrow, T. 1968a. Dravidian Studies I: Notes on Convertibility of Surds and Sonants. In \*Collected Papers on Dravidian Linguistics\*, pp. 1-17. Annamalainagar: Annamalai University. 1968b. Dravidian Studies VI: The Loss of Initial \*c/s\* in South Dravidian. Ibid. pp. 150-177. ### [c30.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.20) Caldwell, Robert 1856 (1961). \*A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages\*. J. L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai (eds.) 3rd rev. edn., Reprint. Madras: University of Madras. ### [c30.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.21) \*Caṅka Ilakkiya Poruṭ Kaḷañciyam\* 1986. R. Sarangapani (ed.) Vols. 1 and 2. 1988. P. Arunachalam (ed.) Vol. 3. Thanjavur: Tamil University. ### [c30.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.22) \*Caṅka Kāla Pulavarkaḷ\* 1986. S. Balasaranathan (ed.) Chennai: U.Ve. Swaminathaiyar Library. ### [c30.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.23) Casal, J. -M. 1949. \*Fouilles de Virampatnam-Arikamedou\*. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. ### [c30.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.24) Casson, Lionel 1997. Unearthing Roman Connection: Alagankulam. \*Indian Express\*. 10 February. Madras. ### [c30.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.25) Chakravarti, A. 1941 (1974). \*Jaina Literature in Tamil\*. Rev. edn., with an introduction, footnotes, appendix, and index by K. V. Ramesh. New Delhi: Bhāratīya Jñānapīṭha Publication. ### [c30.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.26) Champakalakshmi, R. 1975. Kuraṇḍi Tirukkāṭṭampaḷḷi: An Ancient Jaina Monastery in Tamil Nadu. \*Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India\* 2: 84-90. 1996. \*Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South India 300 BC to AD 1300\*. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ### [c30.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.27) Chandiramurthy, M. 1992. Toṇṭūr Tamiḻ Pirāmi Kalveṭṭu. \*Kalveṭṭu\* 34: 1-3. ### [c30.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.28) Chandiravanan, C. and Senthil Selvakumaran 2002. Ayyaṉārkuḷam \[Mannarkoil\] Tamiḻ Pirāmi Kalveṭṭukaḷ. \*Āvaṇam\* 13: 1-3. ### [c30.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.29) Chatterjee, Asim Kumar 1978. \*A Comprehensive History of Jainism\*. Calcutta: Firma KLM. ### [c30.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30.30) Chatterji, S. 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