Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> > wrote:
> > > Not if you wanted to pass your epigraphy class!
> >
> > Mr. Daniels have you read "Early Tamil Epigraphy" by I. Mahadevan?
> > What do you think of it? I have read a few excerpts only but am
> > interested in his outline of the three stages of Tamil writing.
>
> And where might I find that work?

NYPL catalog tells me it's an 800-page edition of inscriptional Tamil to
600 AD. It's not the sort of thing one can "read"; what is his outline,
and how does it differ from any previous treatments of the history of
Tamil writing?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...