A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c10.14
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c10.14
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c10.14
The characters of the Aśokan inscriptions in Mysore, and Kurnool vary in several respects from those of the Northern edicts and have been recognized as a special Southern variety of the Brāhmī script. This shows that writing must have been in use in the South for some time before to allow of such variations being developed, and that the southerners understood the language and were the equals of their North Indian contemporaries in their culture and outlook.