puLLi

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CTamil, naga_ganesan@h... wrote:

 

LS> This symbol, I understand, was not attested

LS> >before 5th cent. AD (Falk, Schrift in alten Indien).

 

JLC quoting Gift Siromoney:

> "and such an example is found in the rock

> "inscription at An2aimalai near maturai

> "(Jebarajan Emmanuel and Gift Siromoney, 1978;

> "pp. 8-12). This third system is the system

> "referred to in the ancient grammar tolkAppiyam."

>

> Has this description been criticized?

>

> Does it contradict the statement by Falk?

 

H. Falk is working from I. Mahadevan's papers which

Mahadevan himself has written that his approach was shown

to be one that needs revisioning as shown by G. Siromoney.

 

PuLLi occurs in Vashish.taputra Satakar.ni's coin of

160 AD, and in the An2aimalai inscription of 2nd century.

Next, in the earliest inscription on music in India which

contains the jatis as in modern bharatanATyam - the aRaccalUr

record discovered by Pulavar ce. irAcu, Head (retd.).,

Dept. of epigraphy, Tamil university.

 

I will give the exact words of Mahadevan updating his

classification of Tamil Brahmi recors and the occurence of

puLLi in second century AD coin and inscription as well.

 

Falk's date of 5th century, as quoted by LS, need to be

revised to 2nd century at least - a difference of 300 years.

 

Thanks for naming Gift Siromoney, he's the man who found

solid evidence on inscribed stone.

 

More later,

N. Ganesan

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