Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c21.s6.11

c21.s6.11

Subramanian does not also appear to have comprehended the true import of the Bhattiprolu conventions as seen from his explanation that they were intended to avoid the confusion between the Brāhmī *anusvāra* and the Tamil *puḷḷi*.³ As we shall see presently, the *puḷḷi* was a later development in Tamil-Brāhmī in response to a problem which did not exist in the Bhattiprolu script.⁴