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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.14

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.14

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c11.14

The Gupta and Valabhī characters are now well known, but though a general resemblance, such as exists between all the Indian alphabets of the 5th century A. D., can at once be traced between them and the character of the W. Java Sanskrit inscriptions, this entirely fails in respect of details, which must be, in this case, the means of determining the exact origin of the character in question.