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In Sanskrit, grantha is literally 'a knot'. [13] It is a word that was used for books, and the script used to write them. This stems from the practice of binding inscribed palm leaves using a length of thread held by knots. Grantha was widely used to write Sanskrit in the Tamil-speaking parts of South Asia from about the 5th century CE into ...
The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada and it was later adopted to write Telugu language. [4] The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script.
Sudha Parimala is a Sanskrit work on Dvaita philosophy written by Raghavendra Swami. It is a lucid adaptation of the well-known commentary on Jayatirthas Nyaya Sudha , which is a commentary on Madhvacharya 's Anu Vyakhyana .
Vatteluttu was systematically replaced by the Pallava-Grantha script from the 7th century AD in the Pallava court and territory (by simplifying the Grantha and adding symbols from Vatteluttu). [ 8 ] [ 10 ] However, it continued to exist in the Ganga country, the Vanakapadi, and the North kongu country, even though the Grantha-Tamil script was ...
The Pallava script, or Pallava Grantha, is a style of Grantha script named after the Pallava dynasty of Southern India and is attested to since the 4th century CE. In India, the Pallava script evolved from Tamil-Brahmi . [ 2 ]
Built up by the Nayak and Maratha dynasties of Thanjavur, Saraswathi Mahal Library contains a very rare and valuable collection of manuscripts, books, maps and painting on all aspects of arts, culture and literature. The scripts include Grantha, Devanagari, Telugu and Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Tigalari and Oriya. French Institute of Pondicherry
Ṣoḍaśa Grantha, also spelled Shodasha Grantha (Sanskrit: षोडशग्रंथ, romanized: ṣoḍaśa-grantha, lit. 'Sixteen books'), is a collection of sixteen books (or doctrines) written by the Hindu philosopher Vallabha. They are the main doctrine of Pushtimarg, a sect of Vaishnavism in Hinduism.
N.'s guide to Editorship titled "Kannada Grantha Sampadane" is among his remembered works. Between 1959 - 63, he was the Editor of the University of Mysore's Journal "Prabuddha Karnataka". His introductions to K. S. Narasimha Swamy 's "Shilalathe", "Vaddaradhane", [ 6 ] "Pampa Ramayana Sangraha" [ 7 ] and "Sukumara Charitam" [ 8 ] brought him ...