Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s5.2

c20.s5.2

⁴ Unknowingly, I had a small part to play in this development. At my request, K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, the renowned historian, obtained a set of estampages of the inscriptions from the Government Epigraphist in 1961 for me to study. I struggled with them for a few months but made no progress at all. Nilakanta Sastri advised the Government Epigraphist to copy the cave inscriptions again, which was undertaken during 1963-64 (H.K. Narasimhaswamy 1968: p. 191).