Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s5.t2.25

c6.s5.t2.25

The third system is only applied to numbering the pages of MSS.; it was used a good deal in Malabar, and also occasionally in the Telugu country, but not to any extent in MSS. written in this century. It is also known in Ceylon and Burmah. By this system the consonants (with short a, and in their usual order) stand for 1, 2, etc. up to 34, and then they are repeated with long ā, *e. g.* kā = 35, khā 36 and so on. By the addition of the other vowels the series may be continued to a considerable length. Another system (used by the Buddhists and Jains in N. India) uses syllables in an apparently arbitrary manner; this is (so far as I am aware) unknown in S. India. I have already² given the chief of these.