Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.11
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.11
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c8.s3.t1.11
The writing on metal plates is always incised in later times; most usually it is done with a kind of chisel, for the ‘graver’ seems unknown in India. On very thin plates it is scratched with a style. The earliest documents of this kind that have been discovered, viz., those found in the Buddhist topes, have the writing scratched on the plates or formed by a series of punctures⁴.