Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s2.4
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s2.4
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c6.s2.4
The figures used to express fractions are peculiar to the Tamiḷ people, and there are many others in use besides those which I have given, and which I have chiefly taken from the first edition of Beschi's Koḍun-Tamiḷ Grammar (p. 149). They are derived, no doubt, from initials of corresponding words, which abbreviations are also combined in some cases; the invention must be attributed to the Tamiḷ traders of no very remote period².