Indian Epigraphy c8.s2.t4.10

c8.s2.t4.10

The Tulu language, spoken in the South Kanara District of Mysore State and written in the Malayāḷam alphabet, has no literature and alphabet of its own. A few late medieval inscriptions written in the Tulu language and Malayāḷam characters, have been discovered.⁸ The palaeography of these epigraphs is comparable to that of an inscription⁹ of Kulaśekhara Aḷvar who may possibly be identified with the Āḷupa ruler Kulaśekhara Āḷupendra IV flourishing in the first half of the 15th century.