Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.t3.4
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.t3.4
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c21.s3.t3.4
Apart from his failure to understand the orthographic peculiarities of the inscriptions and to identify the special Tamil characters for *ḷ*, *ṟ* and *ṉ*, Krishna Sastri's readings have also been affected by his reliance on the unsatisfactory estampages of weather-worn inscriptions.⁷