Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s1.t5.7

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Dry statistics do not, however, tell the whole story. To convey the 'feel' of the language of the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions, a rapid overview of their main lexical and grammatical features, dealing with the Dravidian and Indo-Aryan elements separately, is given below. Detailed documentation has been avoided in this summary as the topics are dealt with more fully in Chapter 7 (Grammar) and in the Commentary on the inscriptions. See also Inscriptional Glossary (Appendix I) and word-lists (Appendices II-VI).