Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s16.t8.5

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An attempt has also been made to determine the dates of the inscriptions century-wise rather than assign them to periods of two centuries each as in my earlier attempts (1968, 1992). The following two Tables (2.¹ & 2.²) arrange the inscriptions in chronological and alphabetical order respectively; Table 2.2 also includes data on the orthographic types (TB-I to III) of the inscriptions.