Tamilnadu

The Story of Tamil-Brahmi/Tamili

Story and Picture | Vicky Kannan In 1882, Near Madurai in the Mangulam area, Robert Sewell first discovered the Brahmi inscription. At that time, no one realized that it was Tamil Brahmi. Later, in 1924, Subramania Iyer studied the inscription fully and stated that the language of the inscription was Tamili and that the script was Tamil-Brahmi. Historians at that…