Template:RQ:oty:Mahadevan quote

Specimen output:

c. 2^nd century AD, anonymous author, Pugalur-5, →ISBN; published in Iravatham Mahadevan, Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century C.E., Second edition, Volume 1: Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions, Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, 2014, Pl. 65^finding:

𑀦𑀮𑀺𑀬𑀊𑀭𑀆𑀧𑀺𑀝𑀷𑀓𑀼𑀶𑀼𑀫𑀫𑀓𑁵
𑀓𑀻𑀭𑀷𑀓𑁄𑀶𑀺𑀘𑁂𑀬𑀺𑀧𑀺𑀢𑀧𑀸𑁵𑀺

naliyaūraāpiṭaṉakuṟumamakaḷa
kīraṉakōṟicēyipitapāḷi

Kīran̠ Kor̠r̠i, the young daughter of Piṭṭan̠ of Nalliyūr, had this hermitage made.

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This template is used to quote a passage from one particular publication to demonstrate the existence of an Old Tamil word. The passages are stored in Module:RQ:oty:Mahadevan, where the words are tagged by positive ID numbers; different passages have different numbering schemes. A quotation can be provided by an entry such as {{RQ:oty:Mahadevan quote|Pl. 66|t|5}}. The arguments mean use the quotation 't' from page Pl. 66, and embolden the word tagged as number 5. The result of this invocation is:

c. 2^nd century AD, anonymous author, Pugalur-6, →ISBN; published in Iravatham Mahadevan, Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century C.E., Second edition, Volume 1: Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions, Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, 2014, Pl. 66^finding:

𑀦𑀮𑀮𑀺𑀬𑀊𑀭𑀆𑀧𑀺𑀝𑀦𑀢𑁃𑀫𑀓𑁵𑀓𑀻𑀭𑀷𑀓𑁄𑀶𑀶𑀺𑀅𑀢𑀺𑀝𑀸𑀷𑀫

nalaliyaūraāpiṭanataimakaḷakīraṉakōṟaṟiatiṭāṉama

This seat is from Kīran̠ Kor̠r̠i, daughter of Piṭṭantai of Nalliyūr.

If the word ID number is not used, then no words will be highlighted. It is recommended that the value 0 be used for this option. Thus, using '0' will result in:

c. 2^nd century AD, anonymous author, Pugalur-6, →ISBN; published in Iravatham Mahadevan, Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century C.E., Second edition, Volume 1: Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions, Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, 2014, Pl. 66^finding:

𑀦𑀮𑀮𑀺𑀬𑀊𑀭𑀆𑀧𑀺𑀝𑀦𑀢𑁃𑀫𑀓𑁵𑀓𑀻𑀭𑀷𑀓𑁄𑀶𑀶𑀺𑀅𑀢𑀺𑀝𑀸𑀷𑀫

nalaliyaūraāpiṭanataimakaḷakīraṉakōṟaṟiatiṭāṉama

This seat is from Kīran̠ Kor̠r̠i, daughter of Piṭṭantai of Nalliyūr.

The additional parameter |brackets=on may be used to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.