Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s2.1

c8.s2.1

For this purpose, bhūrja bark, palm-leaves, plates of metal, and (in later times) paper were mostly used. Of Hindu letters we now have apparently no specimens of more than one hundred years old, except perhaps among the Mahrāṭhas. Allusions to letters are frequent in the dramas and the earlier of the modern artificial poems, and some of such allusions go back at least 1200 years³.