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Findings from Adichanallur in the Government Museum, Chennai3rd century BCE Tamil-Brahmi inscription of Mangulam
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1st century BCE. Tamil inscription found in Jambai village, Tamil NaduStone beds with Tamil script inscriptions of Jain saints in Sittanavasal, Pudukkottai District, 1st century BCE1st Century BCE. Silver Ring From Karur, Tamil Nadu with Personal Name "Peravatan" in Tamil script
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This is a list of archaeological artefacts and epigraphs which have Tamil inscriptions. Of the approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India (2005 report) in India, about 60,000 were in Tamil Nadu[1]
^Staff Reporter (22 November 2005). "Students get glimpse of heritage". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 18 May 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
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archaeological artefacts and epigraphs which have Tamilinscriptions. Of the approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India...
all the inscriptions collected and published in the Epigraphia Carnatica Vol X for Kolar district , a fourth are in Tamil. The Tamilinscriptions start...
Tamilinscriptions in Sri Lanka date from the centuries before Christ to the modern era. The vast majority of inscriptions date to the centuries following...
A number of medieval inscriptions written in Tamil language and script that have been found in Southeast Asia and China, mainly in Sumatra and peninsular...
containing Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions was claimed to be dated to around 580 BC. According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother...
There are a number of Tamilinscriptions in the temple. Domlur is called as Tombalur or Desimanikkapattanam in these inscriptions. Chakravarthi Posalaviraramanatha...
Kannada and Tamilinscriptions that have been documented in the Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 9, Bangalore District (1905ed). Based on these inscriptions the temple...
inscriptions, along with the translation and publication of documents. Inscriptions may be in the Brahmi or Tamil-Brahmi script. Royal inscriptions were...
There are a number of Tamilinscriptions in the temple. Domlur is referred to as Tombalur or Desimanikkapattanam in these inscriptions. Chakravarthi Posalaviraramanatha...
is termed as Pre Tamil. After the Old Tamil period, Tamil becomes Middle Tamil. The earliest records in Old Tamil are inscriptions from between the 3rd...
urbanization in the Indo-Gangetic plain. Further epigraphical inscriptions found at Adichanallur use Tamil Brahmi, a rudimentary script dated to 5th century BCE...
Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to...
century BC Tamilinscriptions, words of Kannada influence such as Naliyura, kavuDi and posil were found. In a 3rd-century AD Tamilinscription there is...
some Anatolian and Safavid inscriptions found in a wide area from Tanjore to Thiruvarur and in many villages. These inscriptions are seized by the Madras...
Sanskrit, which eventually replaced Vaṭṭeḻuttu. Middle Tamil is attested in many inscriptions, and in a significant body of secular and religious literature...
several sites in Tamil Nadu and Kerala have yielded remnants from the Sangam era, such as different kinds of pottery, pottery with inscriptions, imported ceramic...
Tamil community and tangata whenua." Indian copper plate inscriptions Laguna Copperplate Inscription Pallava script Tamil copper-plate inscriptions Tamil...
appear in other near-contemporary Pandya inscriptions. Moreover, the Tamil text of the Velvikudi inscription does not start on a new copper plate, but...
Velirs (Satyaputra). The earliest datable references to the Tamil kingdoms are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE during the time of the Maurya Empire...
The earliest inscriptions which are accepted examples of Tamil writing date to the Ashokan period. The script used by such inscriptions is commonly known...
Palani (Tamil: [paɻani], is a town and a taluk headquarters in Dindigul district of the western part of Tamil Nadu state in India. It is located about...
of the city. The temple complex has sixty four inscriptions of Rajaraja Chola I, twenty nine inscriptions of Rajendra Chola I, one each of Vikrama Chola...
Tirupadiyam Vinnapam seyvar or Pidarar in Tamilinscriptions from about the 8th to 16th centuries, such as the inscriptions of Nandivarman III in the Tiruvallam...
by C. J. Brown p.63 "Rajaraja inscriptions". varalaaru.com. B. Lewis Rice 1905, p. 107. South Indian Inscriptions: Tamil and Sanskrit. Vol. 9–10. Archaeological...
BCE – 700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from around the 6th century...
onwards through medieval inscriptions. They sang their songs to the accompaniment of the yāl harp. In fact medieval inscriptions present evidence for their...
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