Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c6.5

c6.5

Several more archaeologists of the TNSA joined the field work at sites falling within their territorial jurisdiction: Messrs. K. Arjunan, C. Chandiravanan, K. Kulandaivelan, S. Krishnamurthy, R. Poongundran, S. Selvaraj, N. Srinivasan, T. Subramanian, Mrs. A. Padmavathy and Mrs. R. Vasanthakalyani. Other archaeologists of the TNSA who helped the research project in various ways include Messrs. A. Abdul Majeed, K. Damodaran, P. Rajendran, Senthil Selvakumaran, K. Sridharan, Mrs. N. Marxia Gandhi and Mrs. S. Vasanthi. In Kerala, Profs. M.G.S. Narayanan, M.R. Raghava Varier and Rajan Gurukkal joined our team at Edakal and Ezhuttukallu. In Karnataka, Dr. B. Rajasekharappa, lecturer in Kannada, Chitradurga, took us to Tamatakallu, the northernmost site with an Early Vaṭṭeḷuttu inscription which he had discovered earlier.