Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.17

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⁵ Fryer ("New Account", p. 33) and some others err in supposing that the leaves used for writing on are those of the cocoa-palm. In the Mahāvaṁso (ed. Turnour, p. 204) a fugitive king is said to have written a grant on a *Pandanus* leaf, as he could get nothing else.