Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c17.99

v4.c17.99

As already indicated, palaeographic evidence would place the record in the eighth or the ninth century A.D. The characters belong to the nail-headed variety, the top of each letter, as a rule, having a triangle with its apex downwards. Earlier instances of this script occur in such records as the Poona plates of the Vākāṭaka queen Prabhāvatīguptā.¹