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Sanskrit written in the Tamil country.
Also known as: Grantha marks
The marks of the Grantha script, used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit that Tamil letters could not represent.
Write and divide Sanskrit text in the Grantha script of the Tamil region.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Existed because Tamil script lacks letters for the voiced and aspirated consonants of Sanskrit, so a second script was maintained alongside it for a second language — a solution to script-language mismatch rather than to a writing problem.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Punctuation and vowel marks in the rounded Grantha hand, sharing shapes with Tamil while carrying the fuller Sanskrit inventory.