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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.11

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.11

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c8.s1.11

*a)* The letters are scratched on them with a style, and the lines thus formed are afterwards made clear by being filled with some black matter—powdered charcoal or lamp-black—rubbed in with some juicy vegetable stalk such as that of the yam. This is the most general way of writing on these leaves.