On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c7.s1.25

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of the Edicts. The northern variety of the latter developed a new *sa* (Col. VI, d) with a curve instead of the straight limb at the side, and out of this the sign with two curves, one below the other (Col. VI, e), which occurs in the Kālsī version, in Daśaratha's Nāgārjunī cave inscriptions and so forth, and which probably is also intended for *ṣa*.