Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.9
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.9
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The first major study of the cave inscriptions is the paper presented by Krishna Sastri at the First Oriental Conference held in Poona (Pune).³ The paper includes his readings of 31 inscriptions⁴ from 11 sites. He did not translate or interpret the texts and confined himself to commenting on some of the words he could read in the inscriptions. Notwithstanding this serious limitation, Krishna Sastri's paper represents important, even if tentative, advances in understanding the script and the language of the cave inscriptions.