The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.374
The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.374
- Language
- English
c8.s12.374
³ Epigraphia Indica Vol. III. p. 1.—This record is in duplicate,—one copy being in the local characters, and the other in Nâgarî characters; and this, and the Sâmângad copper-plate grant of the Râshtrakûta king Dantidurga, which is six months earlier in actual date, give the earliest instances, as yet obtained, of the use of Nâgarî characters in Southern India, i. e. south of the Narmadâ, after the Multâf grant of the Râshtrakûta Nandarâja of A.D. 708 or 709 (see chapter III. below).