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No. 16
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Remarks
Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Mettupatti (Siddharmalai)
Nilakkōṭṭai
Aņņā
On a rock-cut bed in the hill called Siddharmalai.
2nd-1st centuries B.C.
Tamil, Brahmi
Antai Ariyti (a male personal name).
ARE, 45a/1908,
I. Mahadevan, "Corpus of the Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions" in Seminar on Inscription (ed. R. Nagaswamy), Mettupatti, No. 1, T. V. Mahalingam, Early South Indian Palaeography, pp. 258-266.
As far as the Brahmi inscriptions in Tamilnadu are concerned, the readings of I. Mahadevan are followed in this work.
The label inscription may be taken to mean that it was the bed of Antai Ariti, or it was caused to be made by Antai Ariti.
