On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c7.s3.40

c7.s3.40

The progress of vernacular education and the action of the English lawcourts and of the native princes has of late changed these habits of the mercantile classes. As the law-courts refuse to take ledgers written without vowel-signs as legal evidence, as the native princes follow suit,³ and as the schools now teach composition, the Vāṇiās and accountants write at present more frequently in the same manner as the Brahmans do and have done always and almost without exception.¹