Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s3.1

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c26.s3.1

The Brāhmī script is a syllabary in which each *akshara* is an open syllable, either a vowel or ending in one (except in the case of the *anusvāra*). A basic consonant being mute is not regarded as an *akshara* and cannot stand alone. These principles resulted in a system of writing with the following conventions:

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