Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t2.5
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t2.5
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c22.s3.t2.5
The employment of single consonants in the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions to represent the doubled consonants in the language is due to the influence of Prakrit inscriptional orthography. This orthographic feature is seen not only in loanwords but also in native Tamil words. However, unlike in Prakrit inscriptions, the use of single for doubled consonants was optional in the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions even from the earliest times both in loanwords and native words.⁴