Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s10.12
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s10.12
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Table 6. 2 : Frequency and chronological distribution of medial vowel notations in the Early Tamil inscriptions in the Corpus (2) At Arikamedu, Casal excavated a potsherd inscribed in the TB-II style from the 'megalithic' level predating the period of Roman trade.¹ This inscription, which appears to be securely dated by stratigraphic evidence to ca. 2nd century B.C., vouches for the existence of the TB-II notation also from the earliest times in the Tamil-Brāhmī script.