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Anna District
17
No. 17
Village
Mattupatti (Siddharmalai)
Taluk
Nilakkottai
District
Apņā
Findspot
On a 'rock-cut bed in the saine hill
Dynasty
King
Date
2nd - 1st centuries B.C.
Language
and Script
Tamil, Brāhmi
Contents
Antai Iravatan (a male personal name).
Reference
ARE, 45-b/1908, I. Mahadevan, op. cit., Mēgšupațți, No. 2, T. V. Mahalingam, op. cit., pp. 258-266.
Remarks
The cavern in the Siddharmalai hill contains two rows of five stone-beds, cach with a pillow loft. Inscriptions are engraved at the head-side of the beds.
Probably, Antai Iravātan caused to be made this rock-cut bed.
