Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s1.1

c5.s1.1

Of the South-Indian alphabets, the most important from every point of view are the Telugu and Canarese. The parts of the Peninsula where these characters have been developed have been of the greatest importance in the political and literary history of the South, and chronologically they are the first.