Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s3.t2.6

c20.s3.t2.6

There are 16 more stone beds in this cave, some of them bearing later inscriptions in the Tamil characters of ca. 8th century A.D. These beds are not so well-made and some of them are damaged. A study *in situ* has shown that the centrally located and exceptionally well-made stone bed with the Tamil-Brāhmī inscription was fashioned much earlier and remained the only one in the cave for centuries until the other stone beds with inscriptions in the Tamil script were added in the early medieval period.