{"id":19721,"date":"2024-01-25T07:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19721"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:57:18","slug":"grantham-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/grantham-inscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Grantham Inscriptions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Grantham Inscriptions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Grantha is an important historical script that was\u00a0once used to write Sanskrit\u00a0throughout South East Asia and greater Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The word Grantha denotes in Sanskrit \u2018a literary work\u2019. Evidently, the script used for writing the Sanskrit works obtained the same name.<\/li>\n<li>At one time, it was\u00a0prevalent throughout South India.<\/li>\n<li>When the Malayalam language\u00a0began to freely borrow\u00a0words as well as the rules of grammar from Sanskrit,\u00a0this script was adopted for writing that language and was\u00a0known as Arya Ezhuthu.<\/li>\n<li>Both Grantha and Tamil scripts appear alike in modern forms. The\u00a0evolution of both scripts from Brahmi was also\u00a0more or less similar.\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0development of the Grantha script in Tamil Nadu may be\u00a0divided into four periods. The archaic and ornamental, the transitional, the medieval, and the modern.<\/li>\n<li>Archaic and ornamental variety is commonly known as\u00a0Pallava Grantha.\u00a0Mahendravarman&#8217;s Tiruchirappalli rock cut cave and other cave temple inscriptions,\u00a0Narasimhan&#8217;s Mamallapuram, Kanchi Kailasanatha, and Saluvankuppam temple inscriptions, Mutharaiyar&#8217;s Senthalai inscriptions are examples of this variety.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0transitional variety of Grantha inscriptions roughly belong to three centuries\u00a0between 650 CE and 950 CE.\u00a0Later Pallava&#8217;s (Nandivarman&#8217;s Kasakudi, Udayendram plates, etc.) and\u00a0Pandyan Nedunjadaiyan&#8217;s Anaimalai inscriptions are samples of this.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0medieval variety dates from about\u00a0950 CE to 1250 CE.\u00a0Inscriptions of the imperial Cholas of Thanjavur are examples of this.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0modern variety belongs to the\u00a0later Pandya&#8217;s\u00a0and Vijayanagarar periods.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was popular in Tamil Nadu until the early 20th century.<\/li>\n<li>After the introduction of printing machines,\u00a0many Sanskrit books transcribed from palm leaves were printed in Grantha script.<\/li>\n<li>After Independence,\u00a0the popularity of Hindi in Deva Nagari script\u00a0influenced\u00a0all printing works, and Grantha script went out of vogue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who were Pallavas?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>The Pallavas (575- 897 AD) were one of the greatest dynasties of South India. Simhavishnu (575-590 AD) was the founder of the Pallava dynasty.The Pallavas rose to power during the reign of Mahendravarman and Narasimhavarman-I. The Pallavas established their authority over south Andhra Pradesh and north Tamil Nadu, with the capital at Kanchi.Pallavas are noted for their patronage of Hindu temple architecture.Kanchi became an important temple town and a centre of trade and commerce under pallavas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Coimbatore\/stones-with-11th-century-grantham-16th-century-tamil-inscriptions-discovered-near-kangayam-in-tamil-nadu\/article67768637.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Stones with 11th century \u2018Grantham\u2019, 16th century Tamil inscriptions discovered near Kangayam in Tamil Nadu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grantha is an important historical script that was once used to write Sanskrit throughout South East Asia and greater Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}