Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s4.4

c6.s4.4

It is necessary to remark that as the plates which compose çāsanas are very rarely numbered, it is very difficult to get complete series of the numeral figures used in earlier times. It cannot, however, be doubted that they were in much more common use, than the rarity of their occurrence in old documents would lead an observer to infer.