Faux Tamil

I've been trying to come up with a Tamiloid hand for a while now, and although I've taken a stab using modern Tamil characters, I hadn't really looked at how Medieval Tamil differed. Enter this interesting page on the evolution of the Tamil script. The last one on the page is fairly close to my selected time period, so I decided to use it as a base. I was instantly struck by how many long descenders it has in comparison with modern Tamil, so that was something I definitely wanted to try to incorporate.

The very bottom (faint gray lines) is my attempt to write out the 11th c. script, the line above it is my stab at a Roman 'Tamiloid' alphabet, and the top three lines are a sample text using the Roman 'Tamiloid'. To keep with the proportions of the original Tamil script, I eliminated the use of capital letters and minimized spacing between words. It reads:

tamil alphabet in 11th century a.d.

inscription of rajendra chola I

hand by irayari vairavi