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Inscription ARE 465/1906 in the upper southern cave of Ovamalai Kallvettu at Mangulam in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu. It is the longest inscription at the site, and the earliest known Tamil-Brāhmī inscription, dated (on linguistic and paleographical grounds) around the 2nd century BCE. It records the gift by the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ of a monastery to the senior Jain monk Nanta-siri Kuvaṉ.

Mahadevan, Iravatham (2020) Tamil-Brāhmī Inscriptions (2nd ed.), Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, pp. 5–7 ISBN: 978-86-98179-53-5.

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http://www.tamilvu.org/tdb/titles_cont/inscription/html/mankulam.htm

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S-TN-36.

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13 February 2015, 05:18:25

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