Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c5.6
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c5.6
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c5.6
The discovery and decipherment of historical Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions attributed to the Early Cēra and Pāṇṭiya dynasties and to Atiyamāṉ of Takaṭūr prove the general contemporaneity of the cave inscriptions to what is known as the Caṅkam Age in Tamil Nadu. We need no longer rely exclusively on the cave inscriptions for this conclusion which has been amply confirmed by the more recent discoveries of Early Cēra and Pāṇṭiya coins with the names of the kings inscribed in the Tamil-Brāhmī script.