Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s5.14

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**Contents**: Though the Early Tamil inscriptions are much fewer in number when compared with those of the later periods, their contents are of the utmost importance in studying the development of Tamil language and society in the Early Period. The historical inscriptions of the Early Pāṇṭiya and Cēra dynasties, the exclusive association of Jainism with the cave inscriptions and the political, social and economic conditions of the Early Tamil society as revealed in the inscriptions are briefly studied in the Commentary. See also Chapter 4 (Polity).