Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c7.s5.7
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c7.s5.7
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c7.s5.7
The use of the bindu (o) in S. Indian Prakrit MSS. is very peculiar; it is put before a consonant to show that it is doubled (*e. g.* sa°go=saggo), and this is done even if the consonant it precedes is aspirated (*e. g.* cho°thi=choththi for chotthi)⁵). This practice may be a survival of a similar system used in the Cave inscriptions in Prakrit, as Profr. Kern has shown. The sign ° is also used to express *jj* or *yy*; *e. g.* a°o=ajjo or ayyo⁶).