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Legend in Prakrit in the Brahmi script (starting at 12 o'clock): History īilingual coinage of Satavahana Emperor Sri Vasishthiputra Pulumavi in Prakrit and Dravidian, and transcription of the obverse Prakrit legend. The name Telugu, then, is a result of an "n" to "l" alternation established in Telugu. Īnother view holds that tenugu is derived from the proto-Dravidian word ten ("south") to mean "the people who lived in the south/southern direction" (relative to Sanskrit and Prakrit-speaking peoples). If so the derivation itself must have been quite ancient because Triglyphum, Trilingum and Modogalingam are attested in ancient Greek sources, the last of which can be interpreted as a Telugu rendition of " Trilinga". George Abraham Grierson and other linguists doubt this derivation, holding rather that Telugu was the older term and Trilinga must be the later Sanskritisation of it. Brown made a comment that it was a "strange notion" since the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. Ītharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, calling it the Trilinga Śabdānusāsana (or Trilinga Grammar). Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu, Tenuṅgu and Teliṅga. Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo.