Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.t1.3

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[^1): These boulders are produced, geologists say, by exfoliation, and are not true *erratic* boulders. [^2): It is hardly necessary to mention the chief Açoka edicts which are of this kind. See also “Pèlerins Bouddhistes”, iii., 38 etc. [^3): Beal’s “Buddhist Pilgrims”, pp. 95, 108 and 109 (about 400 A. D.). Remarkable instances are still existing, (*e. g.* at Allahabad) on which are edicts of Açoka. For an engraving of the one at Allahabad see Prinsep’s “Essays” (by Thomas) i., p. 232 and also Fergusson’s “History of Indian and Eastern Architecture”, pp. 52 ffg. [^4): See *e. g.* the plate in vol. x. (129) of the Batavia “Verhandelingen” and the plates in Friederich’s “Over Inscriptiën van Java en Sumatra”. (Batavia, 1857.) [^5): Beal’s “Buddhist Pilgrims”, p. 55. [^6): Barros (in 1552) says: “As escripturas que elles querem que dure pera muitos seculos .... como letreiros de templos, doações de juro, que dão os Reys, estas são abertos em pedra ou cobre.” (Decada, i., liv, ix.; c. 3. fol. 180 *b.* of 2nd ed.)