Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t3.7
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t3.7
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c5.s2.t3.7
The only point to which it is necessary to call attention is the advance made in about two centuries in the separation of the secondary forms of **ā**, **ē**, **ai** and **ō**, as shown by these inscriptions. In 825 A. D. only the ෙ (**e**) was clearly separated from its consonant; about 1100 A. D. **ā** is also generally separated (cfr. Pl. xii., **kā**, **tā**, **nā**, **pā**, **mā**, **yā**, **rā**, **hā**); the form in which it is attached being rare (cfr. **cā**, **çā**). The modern Grantha alphabet dates from about 1300.