Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s15.t1.3

c21.s15.t1.3

Each member of the team was encouraged to make his own transcription direct from the stone. Where a scaffolding had to be erected, members of the team took turns to sit on it to study and copy the inscriptions from close quarters.³ The transcripts were compared and differences, if any, settled on the spot by looking at the stone once again before leaving the site. It can now be claimed with reasonable certitude that the fidelity of the texts determined in the manner described above is beyond doubt, even though there is room for further improvement in the interpretations proposed in this volume, which are mine.