Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.6

c10.6

[^1): Dravidian words adopted in Sanskrit, and they are many, are too much disfigured and of too uncertain source, to deserve a place in this list of materials for the phonetic history of these languages. [^2): The grants to the Israelites and Syrians and other inscriptions from the W. Coast prove that Tamiḻ and Malayāḷam were really the same language in the 8th century A. D. The dialogues in Varthema show that colloquial Malayāḷam was the same in 1503-8 as it is now. *Cfr.* also No. ii. of my "Specimens of S. Indian Dialects", preface.