On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.90

c5.90

¹ The identification, which is given by Malayagiri, is unobjectionable, even if *Javaṇāliyā* is the correct form. For instances of the substitution of *la* for Sanskrit *na* occur *e. g.* in Pali *anela* for *anenas*, *muḷāla* for *mṛṇāla*, *veḷu* for *veṇu* and in Mahārāṣṭrī *velu* for *veṇu* and *limba* for *nimba*. It may be noted that the later Tibetan version of the Lalitavistara includes the *Yavanānī* in its list of seventy alphabets, see Foucaux, Rgya Cher Rol Pa, p. 112 f., and that the *Yonārī* of the Mahāvastu, loc. cit., is probably a representative of *Yavanānī* or *Yavanālī*.