Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s6.t1.3
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s6.t1.3
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c25.s6.t1.3
² The aspirate *dh* occurs only in the loanword *dhammam*/*dhamam* in two of the earliest inscriptions (Nos. *1 & 2*) at Mangulam. The sibilant *s* occurs 12 times, all in the Early Period, out of which 5 occurrences are also from the inscriptions (Nos. *1-3*) at Mangulam. No other non-Tamil letter occurs in the inscriptions included in the Corpus. Earlier investigators have occasionally misread *ḷ* as *ṭh* (as in Nos. *34 & 49*) or as *ś* (as in No. 7).