Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D.
Southern scripts (Vaṭṭeḻuttu, Grantha, Tamil, Telugu-Kannada), the copper-plate grants, eras and dating, with plates.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. C. Burnell
- Extent
- 1,418 passages, 74,998 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 2nd enlarged ed., London: Trübner 1878; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. C. Burnell †1882); published before 1931: public…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 14 parts
- c2 Note — 6 parts
- c3 Introduction — 21 parts
- c4 Chapter I. The Probable Date of the Introduction of Writing into India — 57 parts
- c5 Chapter II. The South-Indian Alphabets and Their Development — 24 parts
- c6 Chapter III. The South-Indian Numerals — 53 parts
- c7 Chapter IV. Accents and Signs of Punctuation — 6 parts
- c8 Chapter V. The Writing Materials Used in India, and Especially in the South — 5 parts
- c9 Chapter VI. The Formulae of the Different Kinds of South-Indian Inscriptions — 3 parts
- c10 Appendix A — 9 parts
- c11 Appendix B — 31 parts
- c12 Appendix C — 15 parts
- c13 Contents — 8 parts
- c14 List of Plates — 6 parts
- c15 Errata and Additions — 266 parts