The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c7.17
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c7.17
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c7.17
In Malabar in short, the original practice was to use neither pens, ink, nor paper. The leaf of the palm, smoked and dried served the purpose of paper. They engraved on this with a pointed iron resembling that with which the ancients inscribed letters on wax, and with a quickness and facility equal to our fastest writers. (Omitted here)