Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s8.1

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The general direction of writing in Tamil-Brāhmī and Vaṭṭeḷuttu scripts is from left to right as in the case of Brāhmī and all other scripts derived from it. However, there are exceptional cases of writing from right to left with the characters turned upside down for a remarkable reason which our team discovered by conducting simple experiments *in situ* as described below.⁴