To date, the various Tamil Grantha scripts are still seen inscribed upon the temple prakara walls.
Here is an excerpt from an inscription (begins with Tiru-magal maruviya śengōlavan..) of this king while he was still a co-regent of Rajadhiraja Chola I: (from Kolar in Karnataka, original in Tamil and Grantha);
Here is an excerpt of his inscription(Grantha and Tamil) from Chintamani, Karnataka mentioning the decimation of Kalinga while he was still a co-regent of his father.
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Shiva provided those boons in a roundabout way: he created a man named Agastya(Agatheesar in tamizh, Agasthyar in Grantha Tamizh) with his mind, so that the boons would be given through that man.
CMS (Church Mission Society) at Kottayam started printing books in Grantha Malayalam when Benjamin Bailey an Anglican priest in 1821 made the first Malayalam types.