Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s12.9

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¹ I. Mahadevan 1971: pp. 73-106. The discussion on the paper (pp. 104-106) was centred on the finding that "Tamil became a written language for the first time in about 2nd cent. B.C. by the adaptation of the Brāhmī script to the Tamil phonetic system" (p. 94).