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True even the old inscription (on the bell) is pretty easy to read, compared to some of the old stuff you find in temples in Madurai / Tirupati.
by searchfaster 10y ago
True even the old inscription (on the bell) is pretty easy to read, compared to some of the old stuff you find in temples in Madurai / Tirupati.
- mataug 10y agoIf I remember correctly the inscriptions in Madurai or other temples around South India are in the Grantham Language which is why its much harder for us modern Tamil speakers to read. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantha_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantha_alphabet
- vram22 10y ago>Grantham Wow, first time I've heard of it. Read some of the article. Seems like Malayalam, Sinhalese and one or two other languages are derived from Grantha, and Tamil is a sister language of it. Also interesting is that the article says that at some period, some documents were written in a mixture of Sanskrit and Grantha, sometimes mixing them even in the same word(!) Edit: IIRC, I also first got to know about the Modi script via some earlier thread on HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modi_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modi_alphabet