Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.2

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[^1): Thus Durgācārya (on Yāska, Naig. ii., 2) says: Ekeshu deçeshu prakṛitaya eva dhātuçabdānām bhāshyante vikṛitya ekeshu | dhātor ākhyātapadabhāvena yaḥ prayogaḥ sa prakṛitiḥ | namībhūtasya tasyai ’va yaḥ prayogaḥ sā vikṛitiḥ ||”. There is no question of meaning here but of form merely. [^2): See the article by me (on a passage in Kumārilasvāmin’s “Tantravārttika”) in the *Indian Antiquary*, vol. i. pp. 309-10. [^3): The Sanskrit-Malayāḷam alphabet, as adapted to Malayāḷam uses g, j, d, to express ɣ, ǰ, ð. [^4): In Telugu ḻ is always expressed by ḍ; *e. g.* Coḍa=soḻa. [^5): It may perhaps be well to remark that the Tamiḷ people (as Mr. F. W. Ellis first noticed) have always put their language and literature on a level with the Sanskrit, calling their own tongue Tĕṉmŏḻi (southern speech) and the Sanskrit Vaḍamŏḻi or northern speech. [^6): Raffles, (“Java”, i., p. 371) noticed the almost complete identity of the Kawi and the *square* Pali characters. F. W. Ellis, about the same time, drew attention to the resemblance between the Grantha-Tamiḷ and Java alphabets, but, rather hastily, assumed the first to be the source of the last. Friederich, (“Over Inscriptiën van Java en Sumatra”, p. 78) compared the old Kawi alphabet with the Cālukya. Mr. K. F. Holle has now in the press a very complete collection of the Alphabets of the Archipelago compared with those of India—“Tabel van oud en nieuw-Indische Alphabetten.” sm. folio, Buitenzorg (Java), 1877.