Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.4

c5.s2.t4.4

The Tuḷu-Malayāḷam alphabet is a variety of the Grantha, and like it, was originally applied only to the writing of Sanskrit; it is, therefore, the Grantha of the West, or the original Coḷa-Grantha as modified in course of time in a country secluded from all but very little communication with the east coast of the peninsula[^4). The importation of this alphabet into the S. W. coast must obviously have occurred after the Grantha had