Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s15.t1.2

c21.s15.t1.2

(i) to mark damaged, partly preserved or otherwise not wholly legible letters as such;
(ii) to note the loss of single letters or passages without any attempt to restore them; and
(iii) to make a special study of the letters variously read by previous investigators and determine their true values *in situ*.