Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.12
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.12
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c5.s2.t5.12
The angular form of this Tamiḷ character is owing to a wide-spread practice in the South of India, of writing with the style resting on the *end* of the left thumb nail; in Malabar and the Telugu country the roundness of the letters is to be attributed to the practice of resting the style *òn* the left *side* of the same thumb.