Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.28

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**6. Publications:** Previous publications on each inscription are listed in an abbreviated form commencing with the official publications of the ASI (*ARE*, *IAR* and *SII*) and my earlier work *Corpus of the Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions 1966* (1968) which forms the nucleus for the present study. Thereafter, references to the major compilations of Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions are arranged alphabetically in the order of the initials of the authors or the abbreviated titles of the publications. Finally, references to occasional papers on individual inscriptions are given with the names of authors and the year of publication arranged chronologically. Abbreviations for the major compilations of Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions published earlier are given below. (These abbreviations are used only in the Corpus. See Bibliography for details.)