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Elements of South Indian Palaeography. From the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. Being An Introduction to the Study of South-Indian Inscriptions and MSS

1878

About the early centuries of the Christian era w° find the Budithist-Brahmnical civilization extending from its ho-me in the North over alien races inhabiting the peninsula of India and in the course of some few centuries it had already extended over Burmah the Malay Islands and even to the forests and swamps of Cambodia. [...] Thus before the conquests of Alexander the natives of India had ample opportunities to learn the art of writing from others; or to invent a system for themselves and thus it must be held that they copied for there has not been found as yet the least trace of the invention and development of an independent Indian alphabets) while of the two characters in which the inscriptions of Atoka were wr [...] In the Vatteluttu it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the initial i and u are anything more than the consonants y and v. These points are intelligible only on the supposition that the Indian alphabets are-derived from the Phoenician which was formed to suit languges in which the vowels are subsidiary to the consonants a condition which is not met with either in the Sanskritic or Dra [...] The character in which the Nothern Inscription of Acoka (at Kapurdigiri) is written is from right to left like all the Semitic characters; and the character of the Southern Inscriptions which runs in the contrary direction yet shows traces of once having been written the same way. [...] Westergaard) appears to me also to point to the same conclusion._ So also the marks which qualify the sign for too in the cave character and which are affixed to the right side of the sir.. 2) In the Journal of the R. As.atrc Society New Series V. pp.
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Cover
i-i A. C. Burnell view
Frontmatter
i-xii A. C. Burnell view
Chapter I. The Probable Date of the Introduction of Writing into India
1-11 A. C. Burnell view
Chapter II. The South-Indian Alphabets and their Development
11-58 A. C. Burnell view
Chapter III. The South-Indian Numerals
59-80 A. C. Burnell view
Chapter IV. Accents and Signs of Punctuation
81-83 A. C. Burnell view
Chapter V. The Writing Materials Used in India and Especially in the South
84-93 A. C. Burnell view
Chapter VI. The Formulae of the Different Kinds of South-Indian Inscriptions
94-123 A. C. Burnell view
Appendices
124-142 A. C. Burnell view
Errata and Additions
143-147 A. C. Burnell view
Plates
i-xxxvi A. C. Burnell view

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