Grantha
ग्रन्थ granthaA southern Indian script developed to write Sanskrit, especially in the Tamil country; descended like devanagari from brahmi, though the word grantha also means simply 'book' or 'text.'
Where this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
…hered some eight thousand palm-leaf manuscripts, most in the southern Grantha script, and made the critical study of the Āgamas possible at all.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
…red, and only a fraction survive, many in fragments, on palm leaf, in Grantha and Telugu script.
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
…manuscripts of Kashmir, the Devanagari of the north, the Bengali, the Grantha and Malayalam and Telugu of the south, and compared them line by line to reconstruct the earliest text the manuscript evidence could…
- The Branching Hand Treatise
A key node is the Pallava and Grantha tradition of the south, from which descend the Tamil line of scripts, the closely related Telugu and Kannada (both from a shared ancestor), Malayalam, and the Sinhala scrip…
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
The Devakottai edition, prepared from Grantha manuscripts, carries the same verse with the year given as Vikrama 1153, which is 1096 or 1097.
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
The Kathmandu palm-leaf reads chatrapādukacāmarāḥ instead, parasol, sandals, fly-whisk, and so does the Pondicherry transcript of the Grantha line.
- The Girl at the Library Door Treatise
…da, Mysore, Travancore and the Whish collection, runs to around 2,500 granthas by Ananthakrishna Sastry’s count, and has been printed in a modern edition.