Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.13
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.13
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c8.s1.13
The use of palm-leaves, as material to write on, is certainly of considerable age in India, and from thence it spread to Ceylon and Indo-China³. This use was probably common from the period of the introduction of writing into Eastern and Southern India, but it is not possible to fix the exact date.