Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.1

c11.1

THAT the alphabets of the Inscriptions of Java and Sumatra present many points of similarity with old Indian and Pali alphabets was early noticed[^6), and traditions pointed to Kaliṅga as the source of the old civilization of Java, but proof of the true origin of the Kawi and Javanese alphabets has only lately been furnished by the discovery of the late Dr. Cohen Stuart that two Sanskrit inscriptions in W. Java are in