Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s9.3
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s9.3
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c12.s9.3
¹ pāvāḍai=variegated cloth (chintz) used as a kind of petticoat. The Portuguesė writers show that in the 16th century men of rank in Malabar wore this kind of dress which must have resembled the Malay 'sarong', but the practice is now quite unknown, and only white clothes are used. us: [Figure] lam. The bindu is above the line, [Figure] l; s is sometimes written ` tma; tsu; ndra; pru; bdha; rddha; lpa; lla; shto; snā, n d