Directions (Qs. 1-5): A set of five statements are given below, which when rearranged, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the sentences and answer the questions that follow

A. The first was relatively easier once the language of the inscriptions was recognised as Tamil.
B. But deciphering the Indus script was a far more complicated study on which he spent half a century.
C. Mahadevan, or Jani as his friends called him, was a special person of _____ talent and a much-respected scholar.
D. The second was the decipherment of the pictograms from the Indus Civilisation, based on the seals in the main, and found in large numbers at Indus sites.
E. His main interests were two. One was the study of the adaptation of the Brahmi script to Tamil, what came to be called Tamil Brahmi.