Vatteluttu, also transliterated as Vattezhuthu, was an alphasyllabic or syllabic writing system of south India and Sri Lanka formerly employed for writing the Tamil and Malayalam languages. The script
Evolution of Vaṭṭeḻuttu (script)
Velvikudi Grant (8th century, Tamil)
Quilon Plates (9th century, Old Malayalam)
Jewish Plates (11th century, Old Malayalam)
The Pallava script, or Pallava Grantha, named after the Pallava dynasty of Southern India and is attested to since the 4th century CE. The Pallava script evolved from Tamil-Brahmi. It was used to orig
Vatteluttu
…south India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and Sri Lanka formerly employed for writing the Tamil and Malayalam languages. The script is a sister system of the Pallava-Chola alphabet. The script was patronized by the Pallava, Pandya and Chera rulers of southern India. Vatteluttu belonged to the "southern group" of Brahmi derivatives…
Pallava script at the 8th century Kailasanatha temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu.
The Ciaruteun inscription, a 5th-century Pallava stone inscription discovered in Indonesia
One of the oldest inscriptions discovered in Indonesia, the Yūpa inscriptions of King Mulavarman, king of Kutai Martadipura written in the 4th century AD