Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.3
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.3
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c8.s3.3
In all instances known, the letters are incised, and, in some cases, appear to have been drilled. The stone used in S. India and Java is easily fractured and, being of coarse and unequal grain, soon perishes if exposed to the weather; thus the older inscriptions in both countries have suffered much, and are often legible with difficulty.