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Early Tamil epigraphy : from the earliest times to the sixth century A.D

This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
Print Book, English, 2003
Cre-A Harvard University, Chennai, Cambridge (Mass.), 2003
XXXIX, 719 p. 29 cm
9780674012271, 0674012275
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