On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c6.28
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c6.28
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c6.28
⁶ See below plate I, No 7, Col. V, a and the discussion on No 7, p. 60 f., The sign, given above, occurs in Girnār, Ed. IX, l. 1. The great length of the central bar is caused by the *ā*-stroke which it includes. Similar forms occur in Kālsī, where they represent the looped *ja*. The corresponding form in line *B* occurs already in Daśaratha's Nāgārjunī inscription.