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Mangulam
10.0309° N, 78.3392° E
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Mangulam or Mankulam is a village in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Madurai. The inscriptions discovered in the region are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions.
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Jain habitation of the caves
3rd century BCE to 9th century CE
Stone beds made for Jain monks (Pandyan worker record)
c. 270 BCE
Discovery by Robert Sewell
1882
V. Venkayya's reading attempt
1906
H. Krishna Sastri identifies Tamil words
1919
K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyar identifies Tamil-Brahmi
1924
Iravatham Mahadevan records and dates inscriptions
1965
Excavation of Jain prayer halls
2007
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