Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t1.8
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t1.8
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In Pl. xi. I have given the alphabet of a Cera inscription which, if genuine, would be (being dated about 247 A. D.) one of the oldest Indian grants known; it is, however, a forgery³. As nevertheless even forged grants have their value as evidence, if not of the early centuries A. D. down to the ninth, but it was probably in these later times a feudatory revolted against the older dynasty to which Açoka and the classical authors refer. The Mercara grant (Mr. Richter's) gives the kings as follows: