Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s3.2

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¹ If Sir W. Elliot's collection of transcripts of inscriptions in the neighbourhood of the Krishṇā and Godāvari can be trusted, the notation of dates by these numerals was not uncommon in the eleventh century; but I am inclined to think that this is not the case, and that the copyist has often put the figures for words written at full length in the original. The oldest inscription with a date in figures in Java appears to be that given in pl. ii. of Dr. Cohen-Stuart's “Kawi Oorkonden”; it is of the 9th century, and is, therefore, strangely enough, older than any S. Indian document with a date in figures.