Ancient History of the Deccan c4.s1.t2.79

c4.s1.t2.79

(2) From a palæographic point of view, Professor Hultzsh has compared the alphabet of the Chendalûr plates and those of Uruvapalli, Mâṅgalûr, Pikira and has established that the letters "ra" and "ka" seemed to be more developed in the Chendalûr document and that it must therefore be more modern. When I myself examined the alphabet of these four documents, I observed that, if the letters "ra" and "ka" were in fact developed a little more, there were as a set-off other letters such as "ha," "ya," etc, which were developed a little less and that all that one can say on comparing the letters individually is that the Chendalûr document was contemporaneous with the other three.