Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.17
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.17
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³ *e g.* Bramban; Citrāxan; Bhūriçravan; -an is the Tamiḻ formative for proper names. So also -ramyan, çighran etc. seem to be Dravidianized forms. I must remark that Profr. Kern does not accept a S. Indian origin of the Javanese civilization, though he admits Dravidian influences. I take the above words from the “Zang xv. van ’t Bharata-Yuddha” by Prof. Kern.