Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s8.t2.3
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s8.t2.3
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The use of the dental *n* for the alveolar *ṉ* is one of the commonest errors in inscriptional Tamil. See A. Velu Pillai (1976: pp. 11-12, p. 24, n. 5) for examples from early medieval inscriptions and for discussion. It is interesting that the falling together of *n* and *ṉ* had started even in the Early Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions as attested by 20.3.