Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s1.19

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(3) The script of the Kanarese and Telugu districts of the Dekhan, — *i. e.* of the southern portion of the Bombay Presidency (the Southern Marāṭhā States, Sholāpur, Bījāpur, Beḷgaum, Dhārwār and Kārwār), of the southern territory of Haidarābād (roughly speaking south of Bīdar), of Maisūr, and of the north-east portion of the Madras Presidency (Vizagapatam, Godāvarī, Kistna, Karnūl, Bellary, Anantpur, Cuddapah, Nellore), — which appears first in the Kadamba inscriptions of the 5th and 6th centuries, and after a long development leads to the very similar and temporarily identical Kanarese and Telugu round-hand.