Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s1.t2.3

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to be a recent forgery; the character of the writing, I find, makes this perfectly evident. The earliest I can use is, however, a grant on copper plate, of Maṅgaḷa of about 578 A. D. which is a little before the most flourishing period of the Cālukyas in the beginning of the seventh century A. D.¹ It is not the earliest known authentic grant of