Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.14
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.14
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c5.s2.t4.14
Tuńjatta Eḻuttacchan's paraphrases were copied, it is said, by his daughter. I have seen the ᴍs. of the Bhāgavata¹ which is written in a round hand sloping to the left (or backwards), and thus precisely agrees with the current hand used in Malabar proper, and which was imitated in the types cut to print Spring's Grammar in 1836. The modern types vary considerably. The Travancore hand is more angular².