According to the team led by renowned epigraphist T Pavithran, former head of the Malayalam Department and Kerala Studies, University of Calicut, this discovery assumes great historic significance because this is probably one of the oldest Brahmi script found in the state so far.
"These scripts in Boustrophedon style are literally a treasure trove that needs to be studied in deep because it should be older than the scripts found at Edakkal," he said.
The scripts are lengthy Brahmi scriptures and this should be of third century BC, but it will take time to decode it and read the content. Though Brahmi inscriptions were found on laterite surfaces in some parts of Kasaragod including Manjeshwaram Madikkai and Karadukka earlier, this is for the first time the inscriptions were found on a granite rocky surface, according to the researcher.
Further, here there is a mix of Brahmi and Vattezhuthu, which needs to be deciphered to understand what was written there. The Brahmi scripts found on six rocks at Maniyani Mani should date back to the period of emperor Ashoka. If detailed excavation is made more letters could possibly be found there, according to the researcher.
"As per the primary evidence, these scripts should be at least 2300 years old, and since there is a mix of Brahmi and Vattezhuthu, it is possible that these scriptures were written over a period of a few centuries," he said.
The scripts were found at Koodammutti and Maniyni Mani more than four kilometers inside the Maruthom forest near Ranipuram, near an elephant track by a team of nature enthusiasts including K V Gopakumar, Irish Valsamma, Sinoj Benny, Rony K and Jayakrishnan M, who in turn informed Pavithran to conduct further studies.
"Though the tribal residents there used to talk about the site, it was only after we visited the place we realized the importance and according to the experts there are more letters than Edakkal here, which needs to be studied at length to unravel the details," said Irish Valsamma.
According to Dr Pavithran, the site where these scripts were found are on a trade route from the coastal belt to Mysore and these inscriptions should be the information for the traders travelling along that route by the rulers of different period.
"No doubt this is a site of archaeological importance and the Department of Archaeology should take steps to conduct further excavation here and preserve it for posterity," he opined.
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