Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c3.18

c3.18

² *Cfr.* Āndhraçabdacintāmaṇi, i., 1. “Viçvaçreyaḥ kāvyam” which sūtra gives the object of the work. The analogy between the South-Indian artificial poems in the Dravidian languages and those in the old Javanese called Kawi is complete, and there can be no doubt that the last thus got their name. All these compositions are, more or less, macaronic verses.