Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s6.t4.1

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Early Sinhala-Brāhmī has markedly close palaeographic similarities with Mauryan Brāhmī on the one hand, and with Tamil-Brāhmī on the other.¹ Late Sinhala-Brāhmī which is strongly influenced by the contemporary Southern Brāhmī script, most probably due to close contacts with the Buddhist establishments in Andhra, is too divergent from Tamil-Brāhmī of the same period for any useful comparison.²