Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.51
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.51
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¹ Voigt. "Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis" p. 640. Roxburgh, however, states that it is "common all over India". (*Flora Indica*, III. p. 790.) It requires the leaves of *many* trees to make an ordinary *grantha*. Palm leaves (there called *lontar*) were and are used for writing the Kawi or Old Javanese in Java and Bali. When I was in Java I scarcely saw half a dozen of these palms. Cfr. Junghuhn "Java" I. p. 188.