Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s4.t2.14

c21.s4.t2.14

However, even Subrahmanya Aiyer was not always able to distinguish between *r* and *ṭu* in the earlier inscriptions. The letter *r* occurs ten times in the inscriptions read by him; he was able to identify the letter correctly only in four cases and misread the other occurrences mostly as *ṭu*.⁹