Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s2.6
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s2.6
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c6.s2.6
The Tamiḷ numeral figures are obviously cursive forms of the Cave numerals modified by the prevailing practice of writing on palm-leaves with a style, a practice which renders necessary curved rather than straight lines, as the last, when with the grain or course of the fibres of the leaf, are nearly invisible.