Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s3.14

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additional symbols had to be introduced to suit the needs of the new letters and in the course of this process, some symbols not required for the Sanskritised Prākrit got eliminated. And finally when it became the official language it spread throughout the length and breadth of the country with royal authority behind, and displaced the then existing varieties of the script. It should be noted side by side here that no inscription in the other coexisting scripts has been found so far. It is from this Brāhmī script that all the existing scripts of the country including the Dēvanāgarī have been obtained by evolution.¹