Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s14.t2.8

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The special usages are too numerous and too systematic to be dismissed as mere scribal errors. It is significant that many of these special usages have also been discovered in recent years in pottery inscriptions and in legends on coins, seals, etc. The evidence justifies the search for rational explanations for the observed deviations from the Brāhmī norms. Chapter 6 in the present volume includes the results of recent research, much of it previously unpublished.²