EARLY TAMIL EPIGRAPHY
by Iravatham Mahadevan
719 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780674012271
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This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. They are the earliest known Dravidian documents available and show some overlap with the early Cera and Pandya dynasties. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
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