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  2. Relationship of the Tamils with the Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The Kaiyuan Temple is a shiva temple built by the Tamil traders in China. [4] [5] Zheng He, a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral of the Ming Dynasty visited Tamil Nadu and Eelam and left the Galle Trilingual Inscription, a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, in Galle, Sri Lanka.

  3. Galle Trilingual Inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, located in Galle, Sri Lanka. Dated 15 February 1409, it was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages .

  4. Tamil inscriptions in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    A stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian. It is dated to 15 February 1409 and was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages .

  5. Ainnurruvar - Wikipedia

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    A partly Tamil and partly Chinese inscriptions (1281 A.D.) found in China and other references to the Chola emissaries to the Chinese court and vice versa stand testimony to the significant volumes of trade between the Tamil country and the Far East including China. The guild taxed its members as a percentage of revenues.

  6. List of countries and territories where Tamil is an official ...

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    Tamil is one of the 22 official languages of India. [2] Tamil was one of the prominent languages of trade in the region during the pre-colonial era. Tamil mercantile guilds like Ainnurruvar were active in Southeast Asia, and several Tamil inscriptions and coins can be found in parts of Asia and Africa such as in China, Cambodia, Egypt and ...

  7. Relationship of the Cholas with the Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Arrays of ancient Chinese coins have been found in recent years at the place which is considered to be the homeland of the Cholas (i.e. the present Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Pudukkottai districts of Tamil Nadu, India), which confirms the trade and the commercial relationship which existed between the Cholas and the Chinese.

  8. Category:Inscriptions by languages - Wikipedia

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    Chinese inscriptions (16 P) Croatian inscriptions (1 C) E. ... Tamil inscriptions (3 C, 9 P) Turkic inscriptions (4 C, 8 P) U. Inscriptions in unknown languages (10 P)

  9. Tamil inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Tamil inscriptions in caves, Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 3rd century BCE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] There are five caves in the hill of which six inscriptions are found in four caves. [ 16 ] The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunchezhiyan I , a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.