Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s10.23

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(8, 9) The precursors of the later northern alphabets, the alphabet of the inscriptions of the Northern Kṣatrapa Śoḍāsa and of the archaic votive inscriptions from Mathurā (pl. III, cols. I, II), 1st century B. C. to 1st century A. D. (?), and the Kuṣana alphabet of the reigns of Kaniṣka, Huviṣka and Vāsudeva (pl. III, cols. III—V), 1st and 2nd (?) centuries A. D.