None

[Anand Venkt Raman]

Amita Sarin writes:

>ronograms that commemorated important dates were traditionally composed in
>the Islamic world.  The numerical values of the consonants in the sentence
>added up to the date of the event.
>What is the relnship, if any, between Islamic chronograms and numerical
>values of Devanagiri consonants?  Which came first?  Did they develop
>independantly?  Are chronograms also composed in Hindi?

I'm afraid I can't comment on the above.  Richard Salomon once pointed
me to a good reference on South Indian Chronograms in

Epigraphia Indica 3, p.38, ll.40-41; 4, pp.203-4; 34, pp.205-6.

Perhaps he could pen a short note on this.

- &