[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. # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Corpus of Tamil-Brāhmī cave and other inscriptions with readings, translations, palaeography, grammar and glossary. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [Iravatham Mahadevan](https://indike.org/pramana/person/mahadevan-i) - **Extent:** 6,038 passages, 176,683 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Cre-A, Chennai / Harvard Oriental Series 62, 2003; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and… · In copyright (Iravatham Mahadevan †2018); freely available on archive.org, worldgenweb.org — shown with… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c1) — 11 parts - [c2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c2) — 12 parts - [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c3) — 1 part - [c4 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c4) — 11 parts - [c5 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c5) — 8 parts - [c6 Acknowledgements](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c6) — 16 parts - [c7 Credits for Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c7) — 38 parts - [c8 Detailed Table of Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c8) — 21 parts - [c9 List of Tables](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c9) — 5 parts - [c10 Maps](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c10) — 2 parts - [c11 Palaeographic Charts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c11) — 2 parts - [c12 List of Figures](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c12) — 3 parts - [c13 Chapter 4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c13) — 3 parts - [c14 List of Tracings of Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c14) — 2 parts - [c15 List of Estampages of Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c15) — 2 parts - [c16 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c16) — 16 parts - [c17 Scheme of Transliteration and Diacritical Marks](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c17) — 12 parts - [c18 Table of Conventional Symbols](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c18) — 19 parts - [c19 Part One: Early Tamil Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c19) — 1 part - [c20 1. Discovery](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20) — 18 parts - [c21 2. Decipherment](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c21) — 19 parts - [c22 3. Language](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c22) — 3 parts - [c23 4. Polity](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c23) — 27 parts - [c24 Part Two: Studies in Early Tamil Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c24) — 1 part - [c25 5. Palaeography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c25) — 21 parts - [c26 6. Orthography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c26) — 22 parts - [c27 7. Grammar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27) — 49 parts - [c28 Part Three: Corpus of Early Tamil Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c28) — 39 parts - [c29 Appendices](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c29) — 12 parts - [c30 Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c30) — 313 parts - [c31 General Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c31) — 79 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) · Pramāṇa