Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.21
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.21
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c5.21
The names that I have given to the different characters in use in S. India at different periods, are mostly derived from the names of the dynasties under which they obtained currency; for a change of dynasty in S. India generally brought about a change of even such details as the form of royal grants, and these constitute almost the entire palæographic material existing from the earlier times.