Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s6.t3.1
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s6.t3.1
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In 1892 Alexander Rea discovered three relic stone caskets (Fig. 5.2) from a Buddhist stupa at Bhattiprolu, a village in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh.¹ Nine Prakrit inscriptions are engraved on the caskets in a unique local variant of the Brāhmī script. Bühler edited the inscriptions in a classic paper elucidating with rare insight their remarkable palaeographic and orthographic 'peculiarities' not known in the Mauryan Brāhmī script.²