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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1077749, member: 2844"]Beautiful, Andy. The script is a type of Devanagari, the script of much of south and southeast Asia. It has many local versions.</p><p>Those very rounded shapes and curls are closely related to old Brahmic script forms, which are still used for languages in Southeastern India. Tamil is a possibility, but I am leaning towards either Telugu or Oriya/Odiya.</p><p>So your manuscript is likely to be Hindu and from Southeast India. I couldn't tell you what the text is about, but it is likely to be sacred. To be treated with care.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is said the rounded Brahmic letters were devised so as not to cause tears along the linear structure of the palm leaf.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1077749, member: 2844"]Beautiful, Andy. The script is a type of Devanagari, the script of much of south and southeast Asia. It has many local versions. Those very rounded shapes and curls are closely related to old Brahmic script forms, which are still used for languages in Southeastern India. Tamil is a possibility, but I am leaning towards either Telugu or Oriya/Odiya. So your manuscript is likely to be Hindu and from Southeast India. I couldn't tell you what the text is about, but it is likely to be sacred. To be treated with care.:) It is said the rounded Brahmic letters were devised so as not to cause tears along the linear structure of the palm leaf.[/QUOTE]
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