[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) › c9 # 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 - **Language:** English ### List of Tables ### [c9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9.1) | | Page | | \*\*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 | ### [c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9.2) Chapter 6 ### [c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9.3) | 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 | ### [c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9.4) Chapter 7 ### [c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9.5) | 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 | --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9) · Pramāṇa