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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.25

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.25

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c11.25

The development of the Kawi-Javanese alphabet into the actual forms as used in Java, Bali and elsewhere, was very slow compared with that of the Indian alphabets, for several centuries; and the current alphabets do not appear to be older than the 15th or 16th century.