Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s3.5
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s3.5
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c6.s3.5
A comparison of the numeral figures in Plate xxiii. will conclusively show that they are all more or less cursive modifications of the Western Cave numerals. As the Cave numerals are from Western and Northern India, and present a number of distinct types, there is no real difficulty about some which present variations of form, for the perfectly evident origin of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 quite justifies the conclusion that the smaller number, of which the origin is less obvious, do in fact come from the same source². The origin of the S. Indian numeral figures is, thus, the same as that of the S. Indian alphabets.