Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.3
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t5.3
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² The old Grantha-Tamiḷ alphabet was given by Babington in Pl. xiii. of vol. ii. of the Transactions of the Royal As. Society of London; he apparently took it mostly from the inscription of Šaluvankuppam, which is probably of the year 1038 A. D.; but he added letters from other inscriptions of later times and from other places. I have examined this inscription which is very roughly cut, and therefore preferred that at Tanjore which is of various dates chiefly from 1073 A. D. to 1089. It includes a large number of grants with many clauses in each.