[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874) › c3.2 # Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c3.2 Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c3.2 - **Language:** English ### [c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3.2) From the beginning of this century (when Buchanan executed the only archæological survey that has ever been done in even a part of the South of India) up to the present time, a number of well meaning persons have gone about with much simplicity and faith collecting a mass of rubbish which they term traditions and accept as history. There is some excuse for Buchanan, but none for his followers; the persistent retailing of this "lying gabble" (as Genl. Cunningham aptly terms it) has well-nigh ruined the progress of Indian research, and caused the utter neglect of a subject that evidently promises much\[^1). The Vedic literature will always remain the most attractive object of - [Previous: c3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3.1) - [Next: c3.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3.3.1) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874.c3.2) · Pramāṇa