Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t7.1
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t7.1
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The practice of employing Grantha characters for voiced consonants, aspirates and sibilants to express these non-Tamil sounds in loanwords occurring in Tamil inscriptions commenced only from about the beginning of the 7th century A.D. It is also from this period that we find evidence for the occasional presence of voiced consonants in medial position even in native Tamil words expressed by Grantha characters.