[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c6.26 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c6.26 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c6.26 - **Language:** English ### [c6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6.26) The early Pallava-Grantha script in the stage when it is yet little differentiated from the ancestor of Telugu-Kannada was carried by Hindu colonists across the seas to west Java, Borneo and Indo-China, the earliest stone inscriptions in this script from these places dating from about A.D. 300. The language of these early colonial inscriptions is Sanskrit. - [Previous: c6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6.25) - [Next: c6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6.27) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c6.26) · Pramāṇa