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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.12

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.12

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c11.12

Now if the character used in the W. Java inscriptions be compared with that of the Veṅgi and Pallava inscriptions, it will at once be seen that it is nearest to the last. The Java character has the peculiar small m used for a final m (*i. e.* with virāma), and we find this also in both the Veṅgi and Pallava characters, and in them only.