Ola leaf could be a palm leaf used for writing in ancient palm-leaf manuscripts and in prediction (horoscopes) in Southern India. and Ceylon. The leaves area unit from the talipot palm tree, a sort of palm, and fortunes area unit written on them and browse by fortune tellers. it's believed that 3 thousand years agone the seven rishis, sages, wrote everyone's fortunes on the leaves. The National Library of Ceylon holds associate degree ola-leaf manuscript assortment. Sinhala letters area unit round-shaped and area unit written from left to right. they're the foremost circular-shaped script found within the Indo-Iranian language scripts. The evolution of the script to this shapes could have taken place because of writing on olla leaves. in contrast to chiseling on a rock, writing on palm leaves should be a lot of round-shaped to avoid the stylus cacophonous the Palm leaf whereas writing thereon. once drawing vertical or horizontal straight lines on olla leaf, the leaves would are ripped and this conjointly could have influenced Sinhala to not have a amount or punctuation.

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