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Tamil inscriptions in caves, Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 3rd century BCE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] There are five caves in the hill of which six inscriptions are found in four caves. [ 16 ] The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunchezhiyan I , a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.
Tamil-Brahmi, also known as Tamili or Damili, [3] was a variant of the Brahmi script in southern India. It was used to write inscriptions in Old Tamil. [4] The Tamil-Brahmi script has been paleographically and stratigraphically dated between the third century BCE and the first century CE, and it constitutes the earliest known writing system evidenced in many parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala ...
The script used by such inscriptions is commonly known as the Tamil-Brahmi or "Tamili script" and differs in many ways from standard Ashokan Brahmi. For example, early Tamil-Brahmi, unlike Ashokan Brahmi, had a system to distinguish between pure consonants (m, in this example) and consonants with an inherent vowel (ma, in this example
The Madurai project commenced with the utilization of Inaimadhi and Mayilai Tamil fonts. However, starting from 1999, mobile phones have been manufactured using the Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) within the Tamil-language Tamil database. These mobile phones are distributed on web pages and in PDF format.
A 2nd-century BCE Tamil Brahmi inscription from Arittapatti, Madurai India. The southern state of Tamil Nadu has emerged as a major source of Brahmi inscriptions in Old Tamil dated between 3rd to 1st centuries BCE. [1] [2] [3] Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning from the 3rd century BCE to the seventh century CE.
The legend is read as 'Ko Veta'. Ko means 'King' in Tamil and refers to a chieftain here. It is comparable to such names as Ko Ataṉ and Ko Putivira occurring in contemporary Tamil Brahmi inscriptions of ancient South India. [6] [7] [8] The Trident symbol is also found after a Tamil Brahmi inscription of the Chera dynasty supporting this ...
Vatteluttu is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD. [5] By the 7th to 8th centuries, it had developed into a completely separate script from Tamil-Brahmi Script. [ 7 ] Its use is also attested in north-eastern Sri Lankan rock inscriptions, such as those found near Trincomalee , dated to between c ...
The inscription was published by B. C. Jain in 1977. [28] It was subsequently listed by Madan Mohan Upadhyaya in his book Inscriptions of Mahakoshal. [29] The inscription is of considerable importance for the history of the Gupta Empire, because it is the last known record of the later Gupta king Budhagupta. [30]