Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s5.9

c21.s5.9

Mr. Subrahmanya Aiyar made a mess of the whole lot of the inscriptions acting on the wrong lead given by Mr. Krishna Sastri concerning the existence of Tamil words. For his purpose of making them appear as complete Tamil records, he took undue and unwarranted liberty with them; he cut off vowels as well as consonants, added others, twisted some more, made wrong grouping of the letters, tried to force meanings into the words he had created, and when he failed to draw any sense out of them, as very often he could not draw, he was satisfied with saying that they are all proper names of persons or places.