Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s3.7
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s3.7
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The Vaṭṭeḻuttu was gradually supplanted by the modern Tamil after the conquest of Madura by the Coḷas (eleventh century), and it appears to have entirely gone out of use in the Tamil country by the fifteenth century³). In Malabar it remained in general use up to the end of the seventeenth century among the Hindus, and 'since then, in the form of the Kōlēḻuttu, it is the character in which the Hindu sovereigns have their grants drawn up. The Māppiḷas of the neigbourhood of Tellicherry and in the Islands