Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.28

c8.s1.28

Some Telugu works written on copper plates existed some sixty years ago at Tripatty, and, perhaps, are still to be found. Campbell (in 1820) writes: “Having heard that a number of poems, engraved on some thousand sheets of copper, had been preserved by the pious care of a family of Brahmins in the temple on the sacred hill at Tripatty, I deputed a native for the purpose of examining them; but, with the exception of a