Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s5.t2.13

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Three systems of this kind are known in India¹: that of Āryabhaṭa, which he used in his treatises on astronomy, and which does not appear to have ever been used by any one else or in inscriptions; that used in S. India (but almost exclusively in Malabar, Travancore and the S. Tamiḷ country), in which the date is given by a chronogram; and a third system in which the letters of the alphabet are used to mark the leaves of MSS.