Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s1.t3.5
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s1.t3.5
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c22.s1.t3.5
The legitimate inference seems to be that these votive inscriptions are in a hybrid language containing Tamil as well as Prākṛit words . . . the strange jumble of words belonging to two different languages . . . It is of supreme importance, therefore, to remember that these epigraphs are not of great value to the study of linguistic development.⁵