Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t7.2
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s3.t7.2
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¹ The earliest stone inscription in Sanskrit from ancient Tamil country(Tamil Nadu and Kerala) is that of Vishṇuvarman, probably a Kadamba prince, at Edakal in Kerala, assigned on palaeographic evidence to ca. 5th century A.D. E. Hultzsch in F. Fawcett 1901 (Estampage No. 1). See I. Mahadevan 1999 for revised interpretation.