Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.10
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.10
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c8.s3.t1.10
To assist in preserving the parts covered with writing, a practice of raising margins round the plates by beating up and then flattening the edges, was soon introduced. The earliest instances belong to the 9th or 10th century; in the 11th century this was always done, and the practice continued to the 17th century when the preparation of documents was generally rude and careless.