Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c9: List of Tables
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c9
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List of Tables
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| **Chapter 1** | |
| Table 1.1. Geographical distribution of Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 35 |
| Table 1.2. Catalogue of Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions. | 38 |
| Table 1.3. Catalogue of Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu Inscriptions. | 41 |
| Table 1.4. Sites with Tamil-Brāhmī pottery Inscriptions in Tamil Nadu. | 53 |
| Table 1.5. Catalogue of Select Pottery Inscriptions from Various Sites. | 60 |
| Table 1.6. Catalogue of Coins with Tamil-Brāhmī Legends. | 62 |
| Table 1.7. Catalogue of Seals with Tamil-Brāhmī Legends. | 64 |
| Table 1.8. Catalogue of Rings with Tamil-Brāhmī Legends. | 65 |
| **Chapter 2** | |
| Table 2.1. Chronological Classification of Early Tamil Inscriptions in the Corpus. | 97 |
| Table 2.2. Chronological and Orthographic Classification of Early Tamil Inscriptions in the Corpus (in alphabetical order of sites). | 98 |
| **Chapter 3** | |
| Table 3.1. Earliest readings of Tamil words in cave inscriptions (up to 1924). | 101 |
| Table 3.2. Relative frequency of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan stems in the Corpus. | 104 |
| Table 3.3. Ardhamāgadhī loanwords in the Corpus. | 113 |
| Table 3.4. Sanskrit loanwords in Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscriptions in the Corpus. | 113 |
| **Chapter 4** | |
| Table 4.1. Religious association of Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 128 |
| Table 4.2. Regional and temporal distribution of Early Jaina inscriptions in the Tamil country. | 134 |
| Table 4.3. Identification of inscriptional with modern place names. | 156 |
| **Chapter 5** | |
| Table 5.1. Frequency of the *puḷḷi* in the Corpus. | 199 |
| Table 5.2. Cave symbols resembling Signs of the Indus script. | 210 |
| Table 5.3. Changeover from Vaṭṭeḻuttu to Tamil script in herostone inscriptions. | 211 |
| Table 5.4. Scripts used in inscriptions in Tamil Nadu (6th-10th centuries A.D.). | 213 |
| Table 5.5. Evolution and chronology of South Indian scripts. | 215 |
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Chapter 6
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| Table 6.1. | Evolution of orthographic systems in Tamil-Brāhmī. | 226 |
| Table 6.2. | Frequency and chronolgical distribution of medial vowel notations in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 233 |
| Table 6.3. | Frequency of doubled consonants in the Corpus. | 242 |
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Chapter 7
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| Table 7.1. | Distribution of consonants in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 260 |
| Table 7.2. | Distribution of consonant-vowels in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 262 |
| Table 7.3. | Syllabic structure of stems in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus. | 282 |
| Table 7.4. | Number-gender classification in Tamil. | 284 |