Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s1.1

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[60] With BURNELL and FLEET, I understand by the term "southern alphabets" the scripts of plates VII. and VIII,¹ which, developed out of the characters of the Andhra period, have been generally used since about A. D. 350 in the territories south of the Vindhya, and most of which still survive in the modern alphabets of the Dravidian districts.