[INDOLOGY] FW: Tamil currency symbol

[Manu Francis]

Dear Jean-Luc and Tim,
Thanks for your feedback!!!
I think, Jean-Luc, that you have answered my query. Which forces me to
reconsider this MS as produced in the Malay world or for the Malay market.
There are unfortunately no scribal colophon in it.
With very best wishes.
Manu

Emmanuel Francis
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2015-04-17 14:40 GMT+02:00 Jean-Luc Chevillard <
jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr>:

> Dear Manu, dear Tim,
>
> Could it be a price in rīṅkiṭ?
>
> The symbol resembles the one provided by Dr JayBee (from Malysia) on:
> "
> http://jaybeesnotebook.blogspot.in/2012/02/tamil-accountancy-symbols-1.html
> "
>
> I arrived to this page, starting from this document (prepared by Dr
> Shriramana Sharma):
> "
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12231-tamil-fractions-symbols-proposal.pdf
> "
>
> Best wishes
>
> -- Jean-Luc (Paris)
>
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> On 17/04/2015 14:04, Lubin, Tim wrote:
>
>> P.S., I should add that Reinhold Grünendahl gives a similar, even larger
>> list on pp. 52–54 of his wonderful volume, South Indian Scripts in Sanskrit
>> Manuscripts and Prints (Harrassowitz, 2001).  But I still do not see your
>> symbol.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> From: <Lubin>, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu<mailto:LubinT at wlu.edu>>
>> Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7:54 AM
>> To: Manu Francis <Manufrancis at gmail.com<mailto:Manufrancis at gmail.com>>,
>> Indology <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info
>> >>
>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Tamil currency symbol
>>
>> Manu,
>>
>> Pope’s Tamil Hand-Book (2nd ed., 1859), p. 18, gives a useful list of
>> such symbols used in “Cutchery Tamil” of the colonial period, but I do not
>> find your symbol among them.  I attach the relevant page.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Timothy Lubin
>> Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
>> Washington and Lee University
>> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>>
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>> ḷ
>>
>> From: Manu Francis <Manufrancis at gmail.com<mailto:Manufrancis at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 6:58 AM
>> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:
>> indology at list.indology.info>>
>> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Tamil currency symbol
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> In one of the Tamil manuscripts I am working on, I have found the mention
>> of a price.
>> This currency is expressed by a symbol (see attached images).
>> I guess this symbol means "rupee", but I am not sure.
>> Has any of you ever seen such a symbol?
>> Or could direct me towards any source illustrating currency symbols used
>> in Tamil and/or Indian manuscripts/inscriptions?
>>
>> With many thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Emmanuel Francis
>> Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
>> (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
>> http://ceias.ehess.fr/
>> http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725
>> http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/
>> Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950,
>> Universität Hamburg)
>> http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
>> https://cnrs.academia.edu/emmanuelfrancis
>>
>>
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