Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c8.9

c8.9

| Section | Page | Section | Page |
| **4.19.7 A note on personal names derived from Indo-Aryan** | 151 | **5.4 Origin of Tamil-Brāhmī** | 173 |
| **4.20 Place names** | 151 | **5.5 Graphemic inventory of Tamil-Brāhmī** | 175 |
| **4.20.1 Countries** | 151 | **5.6 Tamil-Brāhmī and other Brāhmī variants** | 175 |
| **4.20.2 Regions outside the Tamil country** | 152 | **5.6.1 Mauryan Brāhmī** | 175 |
| **4.20.3 Territorial divisions** | 152 | **5.6.2 Southern Brāhmī** | 175 |
| **4.20.4 Cities and ports** | 153 | **5.6.3 The Bhattiprolu script** | 176 |
| **4.20.5 Other place names** | 156 | **5.6.4 Sinhala-Brāhmī** | 177 |
| **4.20.6 Common toponyms** | 156 | **5.7 Tamil-Brāhmī: general characteristics of writing** | 178 |
| **4.21 Flora and fauna** | 157 | **5.8 Direction of writing** | 179 |
| **4.21.1 Flora** | 157 | **5.9 Palaeography of Tamil-Brāhmī and Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu** | 180 |
| **4.21.2 Fauna** | 157 | **5.10 Vowels** | 181 |
| **4.22 Culture** | 158 | **5.11 Consonants** | 184 |
| **4.22.1 Art** | 158 | **5.12 Additional letters in Tamil-Brāhmī** | 187 |
| **4.22.2 Music and dance** | 158 | **5.12.1 Tamil-Brāhmī *ḷ*** | 187 |
| **4.23 Sport: cockfight** | 159 | **5.12.2 Tamil-Brāhmī *ḻ*** | 193 |
| **4.24 From orality to literacy: transition in early Tamil society** | 159 | **5.12.3 Tamil-Brāhmī *ṟ*** | 194 |
| **4.24.1 Early literacy in Tamil society** | 159 | **5.12.4 Tamil-Brāhmī *ṉ*** | 195 |
| **4.24.2 Popular versus elitist literacy** | 160 | **5.13 Medial vowel signs** | 196 |
| **4.24.3 Literacy and political independence** | 161 | **5.14 The *puḷḷi*: palaeographic aspects** | 198 |
| **4.24.4 Facilitating factors for spread of literacy** | 162 | **5.15 Tamil-Brāhmī legends on Sātavāhana coins** | 199 |
| **4.24.5 A democratic, quasi-alphabetic script** | 164 | **5.15.1 Previous studies** | 199 |
| **4.24.6 The consequences of literacy in early Tamil society** | 164 | **5.15.2 Coin-legends** | 201 |
| | | **5.15.3 Palaeography of the coin-legends on the reverse** | 202 |
| # PART TWO | | **5.15.4 Chronology of Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions in the light of the coin-legends** | 203 |
| ## STUDIES IN EARLY TAMIL EPIGRAPHY | | **5.15.5 Language of the coin-legends on the reverse** | 204 |
| ### 5. Palaeography | | **5.15.6 Literal translation** | 204 |
| **5.1 Nomenclature** | 167 | | |
| **5.2 Palaeographic Charts** | 168 | | |
| **5.3 Origin of writing in Tamil: earlier theories** | 169 | | |