However, the names appear to be classical Sanskrit, and it is quite possible that names from this tradition would be relatively conservative and both applicable to a wider time-span and relatively consistent throughout cultures in India where Sanskrit was the language of higher culture and education. Tirupati is a city in southeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, about 67 miles NW of Madras. It is the site of a major Hindu shrine. Examples where this does not appear to be the case are noted. In some cases, a person was known by two forms of a name, hence the aka in parentheses.
Dates are that of the inscription or, in a few cases, simply a reference date in the woman's life.
In some cases, no specific date was mentioned, and I have noted these with a question mark after the name. A large number of the names include the element amman either as an ending or as a hyphenated suffix. I've done some preliminary poking around to see if this has some special significance that it might be useful to know, but I haven't been able to discover anything on it. A note on the transcriptions . The transcription of Indian languages involves several modified characters that I have rendered with the available symbols.