Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c31.9

c31.9

Cerraṭaṉ 334, 556 chalcolithic 171, 209 Chanda, R.P. 70, 71 Chandragupta Maurya 127 charity (religious) 105, 110, 132, 315, 317, 427, 545, 607 Chengam taluk 30, 37, 211 chieftains 119-22, 152, 423, 434, 475, 604, 610, 634 *Cilappatikāram* 139, 158 Ciḻivaṉ 344, 561 Ciḻivaṉ Atiṇṇaṉ Veḷiyaṉ 325, 552 Ciṟuceṇṇaṉ 458, 623 cities and ports 153 *Cīvakacintāmaṇi* 139 clans 142 cloth 141 cloth merchant 381, 576 cock 467, 468, 626 cockfight 30, 159 coins Cēra 57, 62, 63, 118, 153, 236, 237, 244 Cōḻa 118 Pāṇḍiya 57, 62, 160, 236 punch-marked 46 Roman 46 Sātavāhana 50, 122, 199-205, *200* (with) Tamil-Brāhmī legends 50-51, 57, 62-63, 118, 121, 122, 182, 199-205, *200*, *204* Cōḻa
(in) Asokan edicts 23 capital (Uraiyur) 36, 44 coins 118 conquest of Pāṇṭiya country 212 country (kingdom / nāṭu) 36, 127, 140 dynasty 115, 118, 148 empire 212 princes 119 Cōḻas 23, 211, 213 commodities of trade 141 common nouns 281 common religious terms 132 consonants 184-96, 220, 221, 240-242, 253, 257-63 consonant-vowels 262-64 Cranganore 155 culture (in early Tamil society) 158-59 *Cūṭāmaṇi* 139