Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.s1.26
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.s1.26
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the Açoka inscriptions prove, the Sanskrit grammarians had already extended the alphabet to suit their marvellously accurate discrimination between the different sounds of the language in the 3rd century B. C.; it is impossible, therefore, to suppose that the Tamil alphabet is to be attributed to them. Besides their treatment of the Canarese and Telugu phonetics is totally different, as I shall now show, though the Canarese grammar was formed on the same model as the Tamil.