Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s8.8

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According to Bühler, the Brāhmī script was written in the earliest period "both from the right to the left and from the left to the right".² His theory, based on a reversed coin-legend from Eran, is nowadays not generally accepted especially as coin-legends are notoriously prone to reversal. The Minor Rock Edicts of Asoka at Erragudi,³ which have irregularly engraved lines running in both directions, are very crudely executed and cannot be relied upon to indicate a supposedly earlier trend of right to left writing of Brāhmī.