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  2. Galle Trilingual Inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, located in Galle, Sri Lanka. Dated 15 February 1409, it was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages .

  3. Relationship of the Tamils with the Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The Kaiyuan Temple is a shiva temple built by the Tamil traders in China. [4] [5] Zheng He, a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral of the Ming Dynasty visited Tamil Nadu and Eelam and left the Galle Trilingual Inscription, a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, in Galle, Sri Lanka.

  4. Tamil inscriptions in the Malay world - Wikipedia

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    Neusu inscription found in Banda Aceh, now kept at Aceh Museum. A slightly later Tamil language inscription has recently been found at Neusu Aceh, Banda Aceh.The date of the inscription is illegible, but it has been dated palaeographically to about the 12th century, The entire front of the stone is illegible, aside from the isolated word mandapam, presumably relating to a temple foundation or ...

  5. Tamil inscriptions - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Multilingual inscription - Wikipedia

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    the BommalaGutta Inscription (900-950 CE in Kurikyala, Karimnagar, Telangana, India) in Telugu, Kannada and Sanskrit. the Galle Trilingual Inscription (1409; Southern Province, Sri Lanka) in Chinese, Tamil and Persian; the Yongning Temple Stele (1413; Tyr, Russia) in Chinese, Mongolian and Jurchen; see below.

  7. Ainnurruvar - Wikipedia

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    A partly Tamil and partly Chinese inscriptions (1281 A.D.) found in China and other references to the Chola emissaries to the Chinese court and vice versa stand testimony to the significant volumes of trade between the Tamil country and the Far East including China. The guild taxed its members as a percentage of revenues.

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    inscription NITHIJO TAWIDE on shield grip from the Illerup Ådal weapon deposit: Single Proto-Norse words are found on the Øvre Stabu spearhead (second half of the 2nd century) and the Vimose Comb (c. 160). 292: Mayan: Stela 29 from Tikal [78] A brief undeciphered inscription at San Bartolo is dated to the 3rd century BC. [79] 312–313: Sogdian

  9. Tamil-Brahmi - Wikipedia

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    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, Andhra ...