Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s3.t3.5

c21.s3.t3.5

⁷ There is internal evidence in his 1919 paper indicating his reliance on estampages and not on direct reading from the stone. His mixing up the estampages at Mangulam has already been referred to in section 1.2.1(ii). The sequence of his readings at Kongarpuliyankulam and Mettuppatti is also at variance with the order *in situ* (See Nos. *12* & *13* and *28* & *29*.) Direct reading from the stone would have produced more accurate texts in other cases also.