User:Fowler&fowler/Early inscriptions

"Quote: 'The earliest Kannada epigraphs, such as Halmidi (S. Srikantha Sastri, Sources of Karnataka History, 20) and Badami Vaisnava cave (IA 10, 59-69) inscriptions, date from around the late sixth or early seventh century A.D. (p. 106)'" "Quote: (Section: Halmidi Inscription of Kakustha-Battora - A Fresh Study pp. 297-306) 'Now, both the present Halmidi inscription and the Talagunda record may be referred to, on palaeo-graphical grounds, to the end of the fifth century A. D. or the beginning of the 6th century A.D.'"
 * "Quote: 'Kannada ... with inscriptions dating from the late 6th century and a literary tradition from the 9th century.'"
 * "Quote: 'Telugu inscriptions date from the fifth century and Kannada inscriptions from the sixth.' (p. 393)"
 * "Quote: 'The earliest records in Kannada are inscriptions dating from the 6th century AD onward.' (p. 720) Note: As I have explained earlier, the articles on Dravidian literature by A. K. Ramanujan and on Dravidian languages by K. Zvelebil, written in 1979 for the 1985 edition, did date Halmidi to c. 450; however, by 1993 (in light of the emerging consensus), the article on Kannada literature had decided to change the wording in favor of 'earliest inscriptions' and '6th century.'"
 * "Quote: 'Known from inscriptions of the 6th century and after, Kannada has a surviving literature from the 9th century onwards ...' (p. 300)."
 * "Quote: 'Developments in the south were notably different. Tamil first appears in inscriptions around the time of Christ and afterwards in the Sangam texts as a literary language. In our period, it largely maintained its position, although Sanskrit tended to be the language of the priesthood and formal documents.  The first inscription of Kannada belongs to the sixth or seventh century.  Literature ...' (p. 814)"
 * "Quote: “The Halmidi inscription of about the end of the 6th century is also written in Kannada …”"
 * "Quote: 'Aside from a four-line document found at the village of Halmidi, undated but assigned now to about 500 and thus representing the first extant instance of inscribed Kannada ... (p. 331-332)' Also, Quote: '(IA 10:60. The Halmidi inscription (MAR 1936: 72 ff.) has been reconsidered in Venkatachala Sastry 1999 and Gai 1991. (p. 332)'"