Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.s3.3
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.s3.3
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c10.s3.3
The earliest of the two grammars is by Nannaya; he begins by saying that Sanskrit has fifty letters, Prakrit ten less, but the Telugu has thirty-six, as the other letters only occur in Sanskrit words which have been adopted in that language. These letters he says are: a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ĕ, ē, ai, ŏ, ō, au, two anusvāras (o and c ), k, g, two č (č and ţ), two ǰ (ǰ and ḍ), ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, t, d, n, p, b, m, y, r, l, v, s, ṟ, ḷ².