Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.29

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[^1): “Report”, 1872-3. [^2): It belongs to the R. As. Society (No. 112 Sanskrit) and there is a splendid facsimile of a leaf in pl. i. of part i. of the Palæographic Society’s “Facsimiles of Ancient MSS. Oriental Series.” (1875.) [^3): “Pèlerins Bouddhistes” i., 96; ii., 178. A plate of silver with two words on it was found in the Manikyāla tope. Prinsep’s “Essays” by Thomas, i., p. 100 *note*, and pl. vi. [^4): A similar story is told about Sāyaṇa’s works (“Ṛigveda”, ed. Max Müller, vol. i., p. xvii.), but it rests on a ridiculous book (“Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets”, Calcutta, 1829—p. 45) which asserts: “Some of the author’s works were dug out of a pit, by the emissaries employed by the late Col. Mackenzie, to collect literary materials in the ceded districts in the year 1811. The characters in which these works were written, are mixed (! !) and obsolete.” This is pure invention!