pulli
puḷḷiThe dot written above a Tamil consonant letter to mark it as a bare consonant without an inherent vowel. Iravatham Mahadevan argued from its use that the Tolkappiyam can be no earlier than the second century CE.
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Iravatham Mahadevan argued from the pulli , the dot used to mark a bare consonant, that it can be no earlier than the second century CE.