Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s17.t4.1

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c26.s17.t4.1

Doubling of consonants in the inscriptions does not follow the rules of grammar in some cases.² As such usage is also seen in later Tamil inscriptions,³ they should not be dismissed as 'scribal errors', but regarded as an orthographic convention of the inscriptional language:

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