Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s27.t4.6
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s27.t4.6
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¹ It was the presence of such a priestly hierarchy in early Brahmanical Hinduism in North India that prevented Sanskrit from being recorded in inscriptions for about four centuries after the introduction of the Brāhmī script. Prakrit inscriptions are available from the time of Asoka in the middle of the 3rd century B.C. The earliest Sanskrit inscription of consequence is the rock inscription of Rudradāman dated in the middle of the 2nd century A.D. (*EI*. VIII: pp. 36-49).