Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c6.15

c6.15

I am grateful to the authorities of the U.Ve. Swaminathaiyar Library, Chennai, for permitting me to consult the invaluable collection of Tamil books and old manuscripts in the library and for assistance in locating the earliest attestation of inscriptional words occurring in literary works. I am beholden to the authorities of the Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai, for providing computer facilities for typesetting the first draft of the Corpus of Early Tamil Inscriptions included in this volume. I have drawn liberally on the resources of several other research institutions in Tamil Nadu to pursue my research. Among them are the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Dr. C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Mozhi Trust and Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai, and Dr. Rajamanikkanar Centre for Historical Research, Tiruchirapalli.