Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.5

c5.s2.t4.5

[^1): 1) The first complete representation of the E. Grantha alphabet is in “A Sanskrit Primer” by Harkness and Visvambra Sastri, (*sic*) (4°, Madras, College Press, 1827); the letters are, however, badly formed. The type now in use at Madras is very little better in this respect. [^2): 2) See the reference to the Basava-purāṇa (1369 A. D.) on p. 31. [^3): 3) MSS. in all these hands, and of different ages occur among those I presented to the India Office Library in 1870. [^4): 4) The history of the west coast is very obscure. There were, it appears, in the earliest times as down to the present, a number of small kingdoms given as twenty-five by the Portuguese. In the 11th century the west coast was more than once invaded by the Coḷa king, and it is termed Malanāḍu in the Tanjore inscription, though it is not clear to what extent of country this name should be applied.