Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s27.t1.6

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The earliest inscriptions in the Tamil country written in the Tamil-Brāhmī script are almost exclusively in the Tamil language. The Tamil-Brāhmī cave inscriptions are all in Tamil though with some Prakrit loanwords. There are no Prakrit stone inscriptions in the Tamil country. Coin-legends of the early period are also in Tamil (with the solitary exception of a Pāṇṭiya copper coin carrying bilingual legends both in Tamil and Prakrit).¹