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Palm-leaf manuscripts: "Tamil, c. 1600" and "Grantha, c. 1600; from Tanjore No. 9594" (Burnell 1878, Pl. XXXIII, left half)

Photograph of two long, narrow palm leaves with string holes, each covered in small closely written lines, the upper in Tamil script and the lower in Grantha.
Photograph of two long, narrow palm leaves with string holes, each covered in small closely written lines, the upper in Tamil script and the lower in Grantha.
Type
Book plate
Creator
A. C. Burnell
Date
1878
Licence
Public domain
From
A. C. Burnell, 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. (2nd ed.) (opens in a new tab), 1878, Pl. XXXIII (PDF p. 276; the plate label on PDF p. 277 reads 'Pl. XXXII.'); text pp. 41, 44, 142
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