Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.13

c11.13

For these reasons, it appears to me that the source of the primitive Hindu civilization in Java must be looked for in the N. Tamiḻ coast, rather than in Kaliṅga proper, or the Telugu sea-coast; to seek it in Bengal is out of the question, and it is also impossible to seek it directly in Western India, though that is the ultimate source of all S. Indian civilization of which we have any traces.