Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s9.t1.3
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c23.s9.t1.3
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Krishna Sastri compared the Tamil caves with very similar ones in Sri Lanka and proposed that the caves were successively occupied by aboriginal tribes in prehistoric times and then by the Buddhist monks, and in much later times, by the Jainas who carved the stone sculptures and Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscriptions.²