Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.2
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.2
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c5.s2.t4.2
There are at present two distinct Grantha hands. The brahmanical or *square* hand (cfr. Pl. xiv.), and the *round* or Jain hand which has preserved the original features of the early Grantha far better than the other. The first is used chiefly in the Tanjore province; the last by the Jains still remaining near Arcot and Madras.