[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.s5.2 # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s5.2 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s5.2 - **Language:** English ### [c20.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.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). - [Previous: c20.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.s5.1) - [Next: c20.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.s5.3) - [Up: c20.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c20.s5.2) · Pramāṇa