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The Grantha script (Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized: Granta eḻuttu; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized: granthalipi) is a classical South Indian Brahmic script, found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Originating from the Pallava script, [1] the Grantha script is related to Tamil and ...
Extended-Tamil script or Tamil-Grantha refers to a script used to write the Tamil language before the 20th century Tamil purist movement. [1] Tamil-Grantha is a mixed-script: a combination of the conservative-Tamil script that independently evolved from pre-Pallava script, combined with consonants imported from a later-stage evolved Grantha script (from Pallava-Grantha) to write non-Tamil ...
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] The Grantha script originated from the Pallava script. [3]
The above palm leaf manuscript pages are from Tamil Nadu India, in Grantha script, Sanskrit language. This manuscript is likely pre-17th century, but the exact year of its production is unknown. Such manuscripts were produced and preserved in Hindu temples.
Grantha is a Unicode block containing the ancient Grantha script characters of 6th to 19th century Tamil Nadu and Kerala for writing Sanskrit and Manipravalam. Grantha [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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Brahmic scripts spread in a peaceful manner, Indianization, or the spread of Indian learning. The scripts spread naturally to Southeast Asia, at ports on trading routes. [2] At these trading posts, ancient inscriptions have been found in Sanskrit, using scripts that originated in India.
From the 11th century AD onwards the Tamil script displaced the Pallava-Grantha as the principal script for writing Tamil. [6] [2] In what is now Kerala, Vatteluttu continued for a much longer period than in Tamil Nadu by incorporating characters from Pallava-Grantha to represent Sanskrit loan words in early Malayalam.