Tamil Stone-inscription

                        

         A stone-inscription with Indo-arabic numerals 355. Very strange, for at first the number looked like 1355, roughly a 100 years after the Darasuram temple was built. But later, Kingsley tells the number is 355...what looks like 1 is in fact a part of the previous letter. Kingsley also tells that in Tamil temples, numbers would be written out in words and not using numerals. Altogether a strange piece of writing.










                      

This script was found on the temple walls of the Tanjore Bragadeeshwara temple.










                     

Kanceepuram 








                      


கல்வெட்டு (Kalvettu - Kal = stone + vettu = Cut/carve/etch) at Kasi Viswanathar temple, at Tenkasi, Tamilnadu. A kalvettu recorded details such as the king of the province, his regnal year, his predecessors, the wars he fought in, the enemies he conquered. It lists the grants that king has made towards building that temple, who built it, and what kind of charities and donations will keep it afloat. This makes these kalvettu-s a great record of history.








                      

Brihadeeswara temple 




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