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The Materials are available in the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for 1912, 1915 and 1918 where the photos of the inscriptions are given. A discussion of the documents and a short history of the discovery are given in the Proceedings and the transactions of the All India Oriental Conference, Madras, December 1924, pp 275-300.

See also the Proceedings of the first All India Oriental Conference, pp 327-48. An unsuccessful attempt to read the inscriptions as belonging to Paisaci form of Prakrit is made by Dr. C. Narayana Rao (The New Indian Antiquary, Vol. I, p p 362-76)

Other references are :-

1.K. Amirta Rao :

“The Dravidan Affinities of the Paiasaci languages ofNorth-Western Asia” in Sir

Asutosh Mookerjee Silver Jubilee Vol. III, Orientalini, Part 2, pp 427-32.

2. K. A. Neelakanta Sastri :

Madras University Journal, Vol. XIV, p p 3-4.

3. Suniti Kumar Chatterji :

Old Tamil, Ancient Tamil and Primitive Dravidian,Tamil Culture, Vol. V, No.21956,p p 148-74.

4. K. K. Pilllai :

“The Brahmi inscriptions of South India and the Sangam Language”, Tamil Culture,

Vol. V, No. 2. 1956, p p 175-85.