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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s1.t1.2

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s1.t1.2

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c22.s1.t1.2

How is it possible that there is such a vast difference between this kind of Tamil employed in these records, and the more or less contemporary or/and only slightly later literary Tamil language (*centamiḻ*) of *Tolkāppiyam* and the Sangam classics? This was a problem left unsolved by K.V.S. Ayyar.¹

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