Indian Epigraphy c9.t3.4

c9.t3.4

¹ Al-Bīrūnī says, "They (i.e. the Hindus) use black tablets for the children in the schools and write upon them along the long side, not the broad side, writing with a white material from the left to the right" (Sachau, *Alberuni's India*, Part I, p. 182).