Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c31.5

c31.5

Bāṇa chieftains 152 Barata Tissa 143 Begley, V. 43, 44, 91, 169 Bengal 128 Berenike 43, 49, 56, 61, 235 beryl (aquamarine) 44 Bhadrabahu 127 Bhadrabahu-Chandragupta legend 127 Bhakti movement 137 Bharata 143 Bhattiprolu 168, 176 casket inscrs. 69, 71, 72, 76, 78, 91, 168, *174*, 176, 226, 227, 228, 229 medial sign-*ā* 72, 78, 83, 87 orthography (medial vowel notation) 48, 71, 72, 78-79, 80, 81, 87, 167, 176, 226, 227, 229, 231, 228, 232, 239 palaeography 176, 185, 194 script 75, 79, 86, 167, 176, *192*, 215, 225, 227, 229 black and red ware 44, 45 Brahmagiri minor rock edicts (of Asoka) *174*, 175 Brahmanical Hinduism 163 Brāhmī characters (letters) 74, 187, 189, 194, 195, 202, 203, 218, 251, 253 chronology 215 inscrs. *174*, 181, 193 inscrs. of Sri Lanka 71, 91, *188*, *192* nomenclature 167-68 orthography 225, 226, 227, 232 palaeography 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 203 script 3, 16, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80, 85, 86, 87, 91, 93, 159, 162, 163, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 177, 179, 180, 182, 183, *196*, 204, *209*, *216*, 225, 229, 243, 248, 250 variants 175-78 *see also* Asokan Brāhmī, Mauryan Brāhmī, Northern Brāhmī, Sinhala-Brāhmī, Southern Brāhmī, Tamil-Brāhmī Buddha 126, 226 Buddhism (Buddhist religion) 84, 111, 115, 124, 126, 127, 129, 132, 141, 159, 163, 172 Buddhist caves of Western India 126 monks 43, 70, 85, 103, 126, 129, 162 place of worship 48, 133, 176, 177 saṁgha 46 scholars in Tamil 163 Bühler, G. 71, 75, 76, 80, 168, 176, 180, 187, 210, 229 Burnell, A.C. 210 Burrow, T. 120