Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.8

c5.8

[^1): Fa-Hian (A. D. 400) mentions only one Buddhist establishment (? Ellora) in the Deccan, and mentions that it was very difficult to visit S. India in his time. (Beal's "Travels of Buddhist Pilgrims", pp. 139-141.) [^2): Dr. Bühler has ascertained that the Jains are the heretical Buddhists excommunicated at the first Council. I had shown that (in 1872) by 'Nirgranthas' Jains were intended, and Nirgranthas are mentioned in an Açoḱa Inscription. [^3): *J. As. Soc. of Bombay.* V., pp. 117 ffg. [^4): Hiouen-Thsang appears to have considered Conjeveram [Kien-tchi=Kañci (so also in the Canarese books), which inscriptions prove to be more correct than the Brahmanical fiction Kāñcī] to have been the southern limit of Indian Buddhism in his day (c. 640 A. D.). As the Brahmanical system of Çaṅkara sprung up in the next half century, this must have been near the most flourishing period of S. Indian Buddhism, yet Hiouen-Thsang's lamentations over the decayed state of his religion are perpetual. [^5): V. Tripe's "Photographs of the Elliot Marbles etc." (obl. Fo., Madras, 1858), and Trans. R. As. S. ii.