A Concise History of Ceylon: From the Earliest Times to the Arrival of the Portuguese in 1505 |
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... Brahmi inscriptions which refer to Dameḍas , probably the oldest documents in which this ethnic term is met with . It is significant that in these Brahmi inscriptions , the Dameḍas ( Tamils ) are referred to as traders ( vanija ) or ...
... Brahmi inscriptions which refer to Dameḍas , probably the oldest documents in which this ethnic term is met with . It is significant that in these Brahmi inscriptions , the Dameḍas ( Tamils ) are referred to as traders ( vanija ) or ...
Page 101
... Brahmi inscriptions which refer to donors of caves by the epithet vanija ( trader ) . Personal names like Hamuda and Samuda , meaning ocean , ' which were current among the people of pre - Christian Ceylon , as attested by the Brahmi ...
... Brahmi inscriptions which refer to donors of caves by the epithet vanija ( trader ) . Personal names like Hamuda and Samuda , meaning ocean , ' which were current among the people of pre - Christian Ceylon , as attested by the Brahmi ...
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... Brahmi records were the same as the mahā- mātras of Asoka's administration , and the various classes of adekas correspond to adhyakṣas of Kauṭalya . In early Brahmi inscriptions of Ceylon , we meet with adekas ( superintendents ) in ...
... Brahmi records were the same as the mahā- mātras of Asoka's administration , and the various classes of adekas correspond to adhyakṣas of Kauṭalya . In early Brahmi inscriptions of Ceylon , we meet with adekas ( superintendents ) in ...
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