Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s8.6

c25.s8.6

As the experiments performed *in situ* reveal, the Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions described above are not real exceptions to the normal direction of writing, and there is no reason to believe that the Tamil-Brāhmī script was at any earlier stage written from right to left. Indeed, these exceptions themselves prove the rule, as in three out of the five instances in question, the scribes could not successfully reverse the direction of writing to which they were normally accustomed.¹