Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, A. D.: Being an Introduction to the Study of South-Indian Inscriptions and MssTrübner & Company, 1878 - 147 Seiten |
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11th century Açoka character Açoka inscriptions āha Albirūni appears Aryabhata Brahmans Buddhist Çaka Calukya Canarese Cave numerals century A. D. Cera Ceylon Cola Conjeveram consonant derived documents doubt Dravidian Dravidian languages dynasty earlier earliest early existence F. W. Ellis given Grammar grammarians Grantha Hindu Hiouen Thsang India Indian alphabets Indian Antiquary Jains Java Javanese Kalinga Kawi kingdom kings language later law-books lekhyam letters literature Madras Madras Journal Malabar Malayalam marked Mémoire mentioned modern notation numeral figures occur origin palæographical Pallava Pandya Periplus plates Prakrit present probably Profr reign Reinaud remarkable royal grants Sanskrit Seven Pagodas seventh century South South-Indian specimens sūtra Tamil alphabet Tamil country Tanjore tasya tathā Telugu Telugu and Canarese Telugu-Canarese temple tenth century trace Vatteluttu Vengi Vijayanagara Vikramaditya virāma vowels Western Calukya words writing written
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Seite 55 - King in prison, it was their use euery yeere once to show him to the people, and they at their pleasures ruled as they listed. These brethren were three Captaines belonging to the father of the King they kept in prison, which when he died, left his sonne very young, and then they tooke the
Seite 4 - The Aryans invented no alphabet of their own for their special form of human speech, but were, in all their migrations, indebted to the nationality amid whom they settled for their instruction in the science of writing:
Seite 39 - The development of the early stages of the Grantha character is very difficult to trace, for the reason that the N. Indian civilization, when it got as far down in the peninsula as the Tamil country, found there a people already in possession of the art of writing, and apparently a cultivated language
Seite 71 - entre Moultan et le chateau de Louny. Cette epoque devint celebre a cause de la joie que les peuples ressentirent de la mort de Saca, et on la choisit pour
Seite 6 - It would seem to me that it denotes the writing of the Persians, and probably the cuneiform writing which was already known, before the time of Darius, and is peculiar enough in its appearance, and different enough from the alphabet of the
Seite 55 - thirty yeares was this Kingdome governed by three brethren which were Tyrants, the which keeping the rightful! King in prison, it was their use
Seite 91 - countries began to erect viharas for the priesthood and to endow them with lands, gardens, houses, and also men and oxen to cultivate them. The records of these endowments, being engraved on sheets of copper, have been handed down from one king to another, so that no one has dared to deprive them of possession, and they continue to this day to enjoy their proper revenues
Seite 91 - being engraved on sheets of copper, have been handed down from one king to another, so that no one has dared to deprive them of possession, and they continue to this day to enjoy their proper revenues
Seite 117 - indicate that the earliest form of communal property (in which the common land was cultivated by all the owners in common who divided the produce") had already become uncommon; for, though townships
Seite 4 - provinces out of a very archaic type (! ?) of Phoenician, and whose graphic efficiency was so singularly aided by the free use of birch bark.