Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.16

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¹ A treaty between the king of Ava and the Portuguese was written on a leaf or plate of gold enclosed in an ivory box. [^2): 2) *a.* A recent grant on a plate of silver which was executed at Cochin. I saw it some years ago in the office of the Collector of Malabar. *b.* A grant on a single plate of silver and written in Telugu, by which the last Nāyak of Tanjore (Vijayarāghava) conveyed Negapatam to the Dutch. *c.* A similar grant (in Tamiḷ) by which the Mahrāṭha prince Ekoji confirmed the last in 1676. Both these are in the Museum at Batavia. [^3): 3) See below, ch. vi. [^4): 4) This is improved on the Bṛihatkathā which has: “Çrutvā guṇāḍhyakathitaṃ kāṇabhūtir uvāca tam | çoṇitena likha xipram saptānām cakravartinām || kathām vidyādharendrāṇām kathayāmi sthiro bhava! || [^5): 5) Dr. Hincks pointed out that one Sanskrit word for ink ‘melā’ is the Greek μέλας ‘kalama’=pen is calamus. “The words for ink and pen have all a modern appearance.” Max Müller, “Anc. Sans. Literature”, (2nd. ed.) p. 514.