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Analysis of the Copper Grant 



[No. 31. 



in the Grantham characters : used by the Tamuler for the 



^ansJcrita Lan guage. 



(] & rr G s :r gg) lq Osrr soar i_/r ott . 



'The king of kings hath ordained it,' Q&rr and Q&rrcvr mean, 

 a king ; the latter word would be used before a vowel, as in 

 the present instance ^jonm is from ^snLoppSo which in the 

 Sadur agaradi ( Tamil dictionary) is interpreted by & stoop 

 pio - Qeuj&io, making, ordaining ; thus in the Trivannoor 

 inscriptions we have ^Q^esxsuSSljr^^^r ^gycw^^^ytJ ( The 

 land ordained, set apart, appropriated, for (supplying) an 

 agram ( Sanskrita : food for 13rahma?is J. 9 ^&»lo Q&rr gsbtl— irssr ; 

 a compound in the 3d person of the preterite sense. The sen- 

 tence, embraced between two marks, should contain a date 

 of which more will be said in an another place. 



ufrpsir&T ^jrG&su®* lo rr 



1 Sri Bhaskaran Iravi Varmar' This is the name of the 

 Prince. Bhaskara, the sun, is written here in the Tamul 

 characters utp&jt&t, The name of the ' Sun' is a common 

 title given to Sovereign Indian Princes. In the present in- 

 stance it is doubled ; for g)-0"®S (the Tamil mode of spelling 

 the Sa?iskrit word ram, (for r never properly begins a Tamil 

 word,) also means the sun. Varmar is the title of Kings, as 

 Sarmar is of the Brahmans. The termination is of the idiom 

 of the Tamuler. These also write and spell the word cushion- 

 vanmar, so also in ancient inscriptions I find pmLoth and 

 G&TLnih for dharmmam and kharmmam ; as in the inscriptions 

 in the Avenashy and Deyiaikan-cottah pagodas, in Coimba- 

 toor country, which are written in the ancient Tamil cha- 

 racter ; an alphabet quite distinct, and different from the 

 Jew's inscription, and others, those in Malabar. 



Q]j QJ up- ffiJ a) 



' (his) auspicious Foot !' 



The feet of the King, Preceptor, the Deity fyc. is always ad- 

 dressed. The exact force of the word eueo annexed to $03*09. 



