Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s13.21

c21.s13.21

Venkataswamy also believed that the cave inscriptions were full of errors as those who wrote or engraved them did not know Tamil or had only an inadequate knowledge of the language. The most frequent expression in his book is *piḻai* ('error') attributed by him not only to those who wrote or engraved the inscriptions, but also to those who read or interpreted them in a manner not approved by him.⁶