Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s5.t4.1

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Vowel clusters occur in Old Tamil as further elongation (*aḷapeṭai*) of a long vowel by adding the corresponding short vowel in some grammatical forms or to meet prosodic requirements (*Tol. Eḻu.* 6). There is only one instance of an *aḷapeṭai* in the Corpus in the interjection *ittā-a* 'behold!' (1.4).