Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s18.t3.1

c25.s18.t3.1

A square metal seal found during the excavations of a megalithic burial complex at Anaikoddai, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, has two lines of writing, the upper line consisting of three 'megalithic' symbols and the lower lines three characters of the Brāhmī script (Fig. 5.14).⁷ Attempts have been made by Indrapala and others to decipher the symbols on the basis of their reading of the lower line in Brāhmī as the clue,⁸ but the results are inconclusive.⁹