[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) › c20.2 # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.2 - **Language:** English ### [c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.2) Discoveries of note are not of daily occurrence. Nor is the importance of such cognizable at first sight. In the field of research, where one has almost literally to grope in darkness feeling every step he takes, one cannot hit at the true worth of the finds before bestowing sufficient time, labour and thought, which they necessarily demand, not only of one, but of many heads.¹ - [Previous: c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c19.2) - [Next: c20.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.3) - [Up: c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.2) · Pramāṇa