யாகின்றது. நாம் நம்பக்கூடாத அவ்வளவு தூரத்தில் தமிழதும் தமிழரதுமான செல்வாக்கு இருந்திருக்கின்றது.1
ராய்பகதூர். வெங்கையா, எம். ஏ.,
அரசினர் சாசனப் பரிசோதகர்,
1. "It was from the Nagas that the Aryas first learnt the art of writing; and hence Sanskrit characters are to this day known as Deva-nagari. (Tamils 1800 years ago p. 45)
"At Laboe Toewa, Paros, Sumatra has been found a Tamil inscription dated in the Saka year 1010-A.D. 1088. It records a gift by a body of persons who are styled "the one-thousand five hundred. This epigraph proves that the Tamil language was used in public documents on the Island of Sumatra in the 11th century. A.D. accordingly, the influence which the Tamils and their language execised is much greater than the traditional boundaries would warrant us to believe.