Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t3.2

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The only interest this character possesses is the proof it affords of the derivation of the modern Grantha alphabet from the Cera, and thus from the Southern Açoka character. The first traces, I have found of it, are a few words in the grant B. to the Persian Christians, and which are, therefore, to be referred to the early part of the ninth century A. D. The letters are somewhat carelessly formed, but are almost identical with the Cera of the same period (cfr. Pl. xxvi.). To the fall of the Cera kingdom in