Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c31.53

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Tamil (Early Tamil inscrs.: Tamil-Brāhmī and Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu upto 6th cent. A.D.) chronological classification 97-99 Commentary xxvii-xxviii, 541-639 Corpus xxvii-xxviii, 309-10, 315-481 direct photographs 96, *484*, *510*, *536* distribution 34, 35, 36 documentation 95-96 Dravidian element 72, 104-09 Dravidian etyma 661-70 estampages xxxiv, 96, 485-537 Glossary (inscriptional) 643-55 grammatical morphemes 107, 301, 680-83 Indo-Aryan element 72, 76, 109-14 Indo-Aryan etyma 671-77 influence of Kannada 108, 136, 152 orthographic changes in loanwords 245-47 orthographic classification 98-99 palaeography 180-99 personal names 145-51, 281, 656-58 phonological processes 269-70 place names 151-56, 281, 659-60 rare grammatical usages 95, 107-08 rare lexical items 95, 105-06 religious association 128 sound variations 265-68 syntax 301-05 tracings (direct from stone) xxxiii, 82, 88, 95