Early South Indian Palaeography
Tamil-Brāhmī, early Tamil, Vaṭṭeḻuttu, Grantha and Telugu-Kannada scripts, traced letter by letter through dated inscriptions, with charts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- T. V. Mahalingam
- Extent
- 3,005 passages, 116,565 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Madras: University of Madras 1967; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini… · In copyright (T. V. Mahalingam †1983); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 16 parts
- c2 Foreword — 2 parts
- c3 Preface — 11 parts
- c4 Contents — 10 parts
- c5 List of Figures — 1 part
- c6 List of Plates of Brāhmī Inscriptions — 4 parts
- c7 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c8 Chapter I: Introductory — 2 parts
- c9 Appendix: Rock Paintings and Engravings in India — 18 parts
- c10 Chapter II: Origin of Writing in India — 14 parts
- c11 Chapter III. A. Antiquity of Writing in India — 90 parts
- c12 Chapter IV: The Language of the Brahmi Inscriptions — 196 parts
- c13 Chapter V: The Authors of the Inscriptions — 188 parts
- c14 Chapter VI: The Brāhmī Inscriptions in the Tamil Country — 20 parts
- c15 Appendix I: Some Inscriptions of the Early Centuries of the Christian Era — 53 parts
- c16 Appendix II: The Brāhmī Inscription at Mālakoṇḍa — 8 parts
- c17 Appendix III: Inscribed Potsherds from Alagarai and Uraiyur — 13 parts
- c18 Appendix IV: List of Tamil Brahmi Inscriptions — 3 parts
- c19 Bibliography — 4 parts
- c20 Index — 668 parts
- c21 Errata — 3 parts