During the rule of the
Pallavas, the script accompanied priests, monks, scholars, and traders into
Southeast Asia. Pallavas developed the Pallava script based on
Tamil-Brahmi. The main characteristics of the newer script are aesthetically matched and fuller consonant glyphs, similarly visible in the writing systems of Chalukya, Kadamba, and Vengi at the time of Ikshvakus. Brahmi's design was slightly different from the scripts of Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras. Pallava script was the first significant development of Brahmi in India, combining rounded and rectangular strokes and adding typographical effects, and was suitable for civic and religious inscriptions. It served as parent script for several modern-day-scripts, such as Chozha-Pallava-Script, which ultimately gave rise to
Tamil script and also
Grantha script. Once the Pallava dynasty was integrated via the conquest by
Aditya I in 897 CE, which laid the foundation for the future
Chola Empire the Chozha-Pallava was subsequently developed under that dynasty and replaced both the Pallava and Grantha scripts to write Tamil texts, whereas Grantha remained to be in usage for rendering
Manipravalam texts. It also supplanted the
Vatteluttu, when the
Pandya Nadu in was conquered by the Cholas as well. The Chozha-Pallava script resembled the same glyph developments like its counterpart Grantha script, but it didn't feature any foreign sounds from Sanskrit, thus, simplifying the script and ultimately becoming the modern-day Tamil script. evolved into early forms of
Kannada and Telugu scripts. Glyphs become more rounded and incorporate loops because of writing upon leaves and paper. ==Characteristics==