Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c2: Note
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c2
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Note
c2.1
WHEN this book was originally printed in 1874 but little had been done in respect of Indian Inscriptions; since then, Mr. Fleet and others have added much to what was known, and thus, with the help of the exhaustive reviews of the first edition by Profr. Weber in the “Jenaer Literaturzeitung” and by M. A. Barth in the “Revue Critique”, as well as the opportunities afforded to me by a visit to Java in 1876, I am enabled now to bring out a revised and enlarged edition.
c2.2
I have permitted myself more than once to use a provisional hypothesis, but, in such cases, I have pointed it out. In the present state of Indian philology and archæology, there can be no objection to this course; but it must always be remembered that it is not free from danger, and the popular but unwarranted inferences from a similar provisional hypothesis of an ‘Āryan race’ are sufficient warning to all engaged in such studies.
c2.3
To the Hon. D. F. Carmichael I am indebted for the use of an inscription which has furnished a better specimen of the transitional Telugu character than the one used for the former edition.
c2.4
To Mr. J. F. Fleet, Bombay c. s., I am greatly obliged for help in revising the plates, and my thanks are again due to the Basel Press and especially to my friend Mr. Sikemeier, for help in looking over the intricate proof-sheets.
c2.5
*April*, 1878.
c2.6
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