Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.10
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.10
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c5.s2.t5.10
⁴ "Grammatica Latino-Tamilica, in quā de vulgari Tamulica lingua" etc. (Tranquebar, 1739, 12°).—"longis (e et o) nullo notatis signo brevibus superscribendum docent illud signum(-). Attamen nullibi hæc signa præterquam paucis aliquot dictionibus ex inertia fortasse amanuensium superscribi vidi unquam.......addo excogitasse me alium et faciliorem modum distinguendi e et o longa a brevibus: scilicet, cum utrique inserviat littera *[Figure:]* combu dicta; si hæc simplici formā scribatur, erit e breve et o breve: si autem inflectetur in partem superiorem, ut infra dicam de i-longo, sic *[Figure:]*, e at o erunt longa."