The History of Indian Literature c8.16

c8.16

¹ * The difficulty of their preservation is also an important factor in the case, as at that time writing either did not exist at all, or at any rate was but seldom employed. [“In considering the question of the age and extent of the use of writing in India, it is important to point out that the want of suitable materials, in the North at least, before the introduction of paper, must have been a great obstacle to its general use.”—Burnell, *Elements of South Indian Palæography*, p. 10.]