Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.34
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.34
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*4. Boards of wood etc.* In Burmah, Buddhist rituals are often written on slips of wood covered with gold or silver lacquer, the letters being black. Numerous examples of these splendid MSS. are to be seen in the British Museum and similar libraries in Europe. I have not met with the least trace of such in S. India, nor have I ever heard of any such practice in India.