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Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
No. 20
Village
Mattupatti (Siddharmalai)
Taluk
Nilakkottai
District
Apņā
Findspot
On a rock-cut bed in the same hill.
Dynasty
King
Date
2nd - 1st centuries B.C.
Tamil, Brāhmi
Language
and Script
Contents
Cantantai Cantan (a male personal name).
Reference
ARE, 45-e/1908, I. Mahadevan, op. cit., Mēgšupatti, No. 5, T. V. Mahalingam, op. cit., pp. 258-266.
Remarks
The word Cantantai should have been formed of the words cantan and tantai (father) Ibid., p. 265.