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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 .
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 ...
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.
Early inscriptions were almost always made with a stylus into a clay mold, from which the bronze itself was then cast. Additional inscriptions were often later engraved onto bronzes after casting. [1] The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts, preceded by the oracle bone script.
the Monumentum Ancyranum inscription (14 CE; Ankara, Turkey) in Latin and Greek; it reproduces and translates the Latin inscription of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti; the Stele of Serapit (150 CE; Kartli, Tbilisi) in Ancient Greek and Armazic (a local variant of Aramaic) the Velvikudi inscription (8th century; India) in Sanskrit and Tamil
Vatteluttu probably started developing from Tamil-Brahmi from around the 4th or 5th century AD. [2] [9] [10] The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD. [2] It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD. [4]
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.
Bir el Qutt inscription #1 [86] Inscription #2, made around the same time, is currently missing. c. 450: Old Kannada: Halmidi inscription [87] A date of 350 has been claimed for the Tagarthi inscription found in Shivamogga district, but this is disputed. [88] Kavirajamarga (c. 850) is the oldest literary work. [87] c. 478-490 [89] Classical ...