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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t3.12

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t3.12

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c22.s2.t3.12

The Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions have only two tenses, the past and the non-past, and no present tense, agreeing in this respect with Old Tamil. The present tense in Tamil is a later development.