Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.42
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.42
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The Canarese cover the cotton cloth with a paste made of mucilage (from tamarind or similar seeds) mixed with powdered charcoal, and when dry it is folded transversely, and written on with a steatite pencil or chalk, so that the letters are white on a black ground¹). Books of this kind are now seldom used except for merchants' accounts, and I have not met with any old specimens. The earliest reference² to this kind of books, is of about 1250 A. D.