Which of the following statements are true about palm leaves? (i) When writing on palm leaves, it is not customary to place a dot over consonants or a full stop at the end of a sentence. (ii) In inscriptions, a full stop is usually placed at the end of sentence. (iii) On some palm leaves, a vertical line is used to indicate the end of a sentence instead of a full stop.
(i) and (iii) only
Palm leaf manuscripts were written with an iron stylus, and a dot pressed on the thin leaf could easily tear it.
So scribes did not put the pulli (dot) over consonants, nor a full stop at the end of a sentence; the reader judged these from context, which makes the first statement true.
Stone inscriptions likewise did not use full stops at the end of sentences, so the second statement is false.
In some palm leaf documents a short vertical stroke was used to mark the end of a sentence in place of a full stop, so the third statement is true.
Hence, (i) and (iii) only.
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