Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.11

c5.s2.t5.11

Beschi omits to mention the information given by the Tamiḷ grammarians which is of some interest. The Tŏlkāppiyam (i., 1, 16) states that a dot is to be put over **ĕ** and **ŏ**. This practice was, therefore, recognized by the grammarians about the 8th century. In the 11th century the Vīraśōliyam of Buddhamitra (i., 6: “ĕɣaravŏɣaramĕyyiṟ puḷḷi mēyvum”) repeats this rule, and so does the Nannūl in still more recent or, as Dr. Pope considers, in quite recent times. Of this also, I have not been able to find the least trace in the inscriptions.