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'''Kanthadai Vaidya Subrahmanya Aiyar''' (1875 &ndash; 7 November 1969) was a Tamil [[epigraphist]] and [[historian]]. He is considered to be the first person to conclusively decipher the cave inscriptions of [[Tamil Nadu]] as a form of [[Tamil-Brahmi]].<ref name="thehindu_20030803">{{cite news|title=Records and revelations|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/lr/2003/08/03/stories/2003080300280400.htm|date=3 August 2003|work=[[The Hindu]]|author=Indira Parthasarathy|author-link=Indira Parthasarathy|access-date=5 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101021044255/http://www.hinduonnet.com/lr/2003/08/03/stories/2003080300280400.htm|archive-date=21 October 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="mahadevan_interview">{{cite web|title=Straight from the Heart - Iravatham Mahadevan: Interview with Iravatham Mahadevan|url=http://www.varalaaru.com/Default.asp?articleid=740|publisher=Varalaaru.com}}</ref><ref name="thehindu_20090101">{{cite news|title=Jaina treasure trove in Mankulam village|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=1 January 2009|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article365626.ece|author=T. S. Subramanian}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Subrahmanya Aiyar was born in [[Coimbatore]] in 1875 and was educated in [[Trichinopoly]]. On completion of his education, Aiyar obtained a job at the Coimbatore Collectorate in [[Ootacamund]] where his abilities were recognised by Chief Epigraphist [[V. Venkayya]] who in 1906, inducted him into his team.<br />
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==Career ==<br />
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Subrahmanya Aiyar worked as a government epigraphist from 1906 to 1932. He edited South Indian Inscriptions Volumes VI, VII and VIII and wrote for the ''[[Epigraphia Indica]]''. In 1938, he published a monumental 3-volume work ''Historical Sketches of Ancient Deccan''.<br />
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== Works ==<br />
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* {{cite book|title=Historical Sketches of Ancient Deccan|year=1917|publisher=Modern Printing Works|first=K. V. Subrahmanya|last=Aiyar}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=The Earliest monuments of the Pândya country and their inscriptions|first=K. V. Subrahmanya|last=Aiyar|year=1924}}<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* {{cite book|title=Tamilian historiography|author=N. Subrahmanian|year=1988|pages=119–120|publisher=Ennes Publications|chapter=K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyar}}<br />
* {{cite web|title=Prominent Epigraphists of Sanskrit and Dravidian|url=http://asi.nic.in/asi_epigraphical_sans_epigraphists.asp|publisher=[[Archaeological Survey of India]]}}<br />
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