Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c6.s4.9

c6.s4.9

CUNNINGHAM'S opinion, which was formerly shared by some eminent scholars, presupposes the use of Indian hieroglyphic pictures, of which hitherto no trace has been found. On the other hand, the legend of the Eran coin, which runs from the right to the left, and the letters seemingly turned round in the opposite direction which appear rarely in the Aśoka edicts and more frequently in the Bhattiprolu inscriptions, point to the correctness of the view taken as granted in all the other attempts at explanation, *viz.*, that Semitic signs are the prototypes of the Brāhma letters.