Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c5.4

c5.4

The Corpus is accompanied by Commentary which supplements the brief notes with additional information on the language and contents of the inscriptions. Literary and inscriptional parallels are cited in the Commentary to illustrate the inscriptional usage of words in the Corpus. A set of word lists is included comprising inscriptional glossary and indexes to personal and place names, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan etyma and grammatical morphemes occurring in the inscriptions. Two maps are provided showing the distribution of sites with Early Tamil inscriptions and sites which have yielded pottery inscriptions.