Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c31.39

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c31.39

Polālaiyan 393, 584-85 Poluvampatti 47, 48, 53, 160 pool (pond) 13, 25, 105, 134, 392, 439, 453, 615, 622 Poompuhar (Kāviri-p-pūmpaṭṭiṇam) 47, 53, 135 Poonagari 48 Porkorri 468, 626-27 post-holes 25 post-Mauryan 111, 175 Potikai mountain 24 potiyil 163 pottery graffiti 172, 206, 207, 209 pottery inscrs. 4, 37, 43-50, 52, 53, 54-56, 60-61, 74, 78, 87, 91, 92, 93, 94, 115, 147, 160, 169, 172, 185, 186, 189, 190, 195, 196, 197, 198, 205, 234, 235, Prakrit (of the) cave inscriptions 111 charters of early Pallavas 213 dialects 111, 112, 113 Dravidian Prakrit 199 element in Early Tamil inscrs. 72 grammatical forms 110 inscriptional orthography 240 inscriptional Prakrit 111 inscrs. 94, 95, 106, 109, 124, 131, 135, 161, 168, 176, 190, 240 on inscribed objects 67, 148, 183, 191, 193, 249 on pottery 44, 47, 160, 248 Jaina Prakrit (Ardhamāgadhī) 112, 113 language 23, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 69, 76, 77, 95, 101, 103, 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 120, 126, 130, 136, 144, 148, 160, 161, 162, 171, 191, 193, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 226, 240, 245, 248 legend on Pāṇṭiya bi-lingual coin 62, 160 legends on Sātavāhana bi-lingual coins 63, *200*, 201-05 literary Prakrits 111 loanwords (in Early Tamil inscrs.) 23, 73, 75, 103, 113, 160, 250 prehistoric rock carvings 8, *10*, 27, 29 Prinsep, J. 75 producer or seller of salt 142 professions 141-42 pronouns 107, 284 props (support) 25, 423, 605 prothetic vowel *i-* 270 Proto-Dravidian 201, 254 Proto-South Dravidian 103 Proto-Telugu- Kannada (script) 94, 215 Ptolemy 153 Pugalur (inscrs.) 16, 17-20, *18*, 23, 36, 39, 81, 82, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 117, 118, 122, 130, 135, 141, 153, 229, 405-21, 592-604 Pūjyapāda 136 Pulankurichi (inscrs.) 37, 136, 169, 180, 181, 184, 185, 197, 198, 211, *puḷḷi* 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 87, 90, 93, 94, 99, 173, 175, 182, 183, 186, 198-99, 202, 203, 226, 229, 230-31, 234, 235, 236, 240 *puḷḷi* in *Tolkāppiyam* 230 punctuation 205 *Puranānūṟu* 23 Pushparatnam, P. 195, 196 Pūti vīra 434, 611 Puttur 139