Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s5.t1.13

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Compared with the other three major Dravidian literary languages, Malayalam is of much less epigraphic significance, coming into use only around the fifteenth century. The number of stone and copper plate inscriptions in Malayalam is thus far smaller than in the other Dravidian languages.