Tamil-Brahmi Scripts
Three Tamil-Brahmi scripts are found in the Pattanam excavations. In a trial trench, laid earlier by Professor V. Selvakumar and K.P. Shajan, a pot-sherd with the Tamil-Brahmi letters reading "ur pa ve o" was found. Later, another Tamil-Brahmi script with the letters "ca ta " was found. The last Tamil-Brahmi script (dated to c. 2nd century AD, probably reading "a-ma-na", meaning "a Jaina" in Tamil) was found on another pot-rim at Pattanam during the sixth season. If the rendering and the meaning is not mistaken, it establishes that Jainism was prevalent on the Malabar Coast at least from the 2nd century. The three Tamil-Brahmi letters are followed by two Megalithic Graffiti symbols which could not be identified. This is for the first time the excavators are getting direct evidence relating to a religious system in ancient Kerala.
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