Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s8.3

c25.s8.3

(a) Two inscriptions, one at Tirupparankunram (No. **53**) and the other at Muttuppatti (No. **56**) are engraved on the front side of raised stone beds. To an observer standing in front of the beds facing the inscriptions, they appear to be engraved from right to left with the letters turned upside down. However, the observer sitting on the beds and looking down would find the inscriptions running in the normal direction from left to right with the letters in proper orientation and would have no difficulty in reading them. It appears that the scribes engraved the inscriptions in this special manner on the instructions of the donors who wished to be remembered by the resident monks in their prayers.