Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c2.6

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¹ A final paragraph on page 96 of the German work mentions “some recent publications, amongst them Dr. Grierson’s examination of the Gayā alphabet of the stone-masons,” which could not be considered then, but were to be noticed in the second edition of Indian Studies, No. III. A treatment of them in that way explains the omission of that final paragraph in Professor Bühler’s English manuscript. And it also, no doubt, accounts for the omission of the Brāhma character for the guttural nasal, *ṅ*, in line 14 of col. VI. of the table on page 11, as compared with the same table on page 12 of the German text, and for the introduction of an inset illustration of that character in an additional remark made on page 35, under § 16, C, (12), in connection with which there is to be taken an observation made on page 14, under § 4, B, (4), (*e*). In a reference to the Gayā alphabet on page 29, in line 5 from the bottom, for *ṇa* read *ṅa*.