kalki

[N. Ganesan]

Dr. V. Rao <vidynath at MATH.OHIO-STATE.EDU> wrote a while ago:
>The trouble is that these are attested at a much later date. The
>presence of words like `kalki' shows that -lk- is acceptable in
>Modern Tamil. But that tells us nothing about the situation in early
>First Millennium BCE.

May be the answer is very late:
In around 1000 A.D., tamil texts and commentaries render skt. r/l
as .r(R). Examples:
kalki > ka.rki(kaRki); varga > va.rkam(vaRkam); tarka > taRkam in
tamil. Only later, these are tamilized as kalki, varukkam, tarukkam
respectively.

Don't know about the First Millennium BCE situation.

Regards,
N. Ganesan

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