Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.26

c4.26

¹ "Pāṇini's Place" p. 16. "It would seem to me that it denotes the writing of the Persians, and probably the cuneiform writing which was already known, before the time of Darius, and is peculiar enough in its appearance, and different enough from the alphabet of the (17) Hindus, to explain the fact that its name called for the formation of a separate word."