Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.49
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s1.49
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The earliest Indian MS. on paper that has, as yet, been discovered is of 1310 A. D.⁵, but there are many others in existence of anything like this age, and most of the MSS. in existence are subsequent to 1500 A. D. The miserably destructive climate of India is quite sufficient to account for this seemingly strange circumstance.