Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s6.t1.3
Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s6.t1.3
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² Differently BURNELL, ESIP. 44, 47 ff., who considers the Vaṭṭeḷuttu as independent of the Brāhmī, but likewise of Semitic origin, and declares the Tamil alphabet to be the result of a Brahmanical adaptation of the Grantha letters to the phonetical system of the Vaṭṭeḷuttu. This view has already been characterised "as hardly in accordance with the facts" by CALDWELL, op. cit., 9.