Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.3
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.3
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c5.s2.t4.3
By far the largest number of Grantha MSS. now existing are brahmanical, and the lesser or greater approach of the writing to the angular Tamiḻ forms, is a certain test of the age of a MS. Such a hand as that shown in Pl. xxxiii. became quite obsolete by 1700 A. D. The only modern MS. that I have seen at all like it, came from Palghat (Pālakkāḍu); but occasional Malayāḷam forms of letters show its origin[^3).