Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.16

c5.16

In this chapter I shall consider the different forms of the letters in use at different periods as proved by inscriptions, confining myself entirely to the forms of the letters. But as the history of the expressions of the phonetic elements of the Dravidian is a matter of importance even in palæographical questions, all material that could be discovered relating to this subject will be found collected in an Appendix (A).