Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.5
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.5
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the mere position of the stones could do¹". The inscriptions of Açoka are also in themselves proofs that writing was about 250 B. C. a recent practice, for they present irregularities of every kind[^2). That these inscriptions are of a period immediately after the introduction of writing has been insisted on by Profr. Wassiljew, who also remarks that it is not long after their date that the Buddhists refer to their scriptures as written[^3).