Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.t2.7
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.t2.7
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c21.s3.t2.7
Krishna Sastri was again the first to guess correctly (though rather intuitively from his knowledge of Tamil epigraphy) that at least some of the consonants in the cave inscriptions have to be treated as basic.⁴ Actually, this is one of the main features of the Bhattiprolu orthography and it applies almost without exception to all the unmarked consonants in the early cave inscriptions.