Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c2.22

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In § 29, page 65 ff., and anywhere else where the word may occur, I have taken the liberty of substituting the word "Kanarese" for the "*Kāṇara*" of the German original and of the manuscript translation ; and similarly, on page 46, line 4, and page 51, lines 21, 27 f., I have substituted "the Kanarese country" for the "*Kāṇara*" of the original and of the manuscript. The form "*Kāṇara*," with the lingual *ṇ*, is nothing but an imaginative advance upon the official figment "Kānara," with the dental *n*, for which, itself, there is no basis in the Kanarese language, nor any necessity. I had thought at first of using, like the late Rev. Dr. Kittel and some other writers, the original vernacular word "Kannaḍa,"—the source of our conventional "Canara, Kanara," which, however, do not mean the whole of the Kanarese country. And that word, which denotes both the country and its language and also their alphabetical characters, would have been appropriate enough. But I decided eventually on "Kanarese:" partly because, though this term, also, is conventional, it is so well-established, familiar, and definitive; and partly because it was practically used, alongside of the word "Kāṇara," by Professor Bühler himself, in the "Kanaresische" and "Altkanaresische" of the original German work (*e. g.*, page 66, lines 4, 6), and in the "Canarese" and "Old Canarese" of corresponding passages in his English version.