Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s10.24

c7.s10.24

(10—15) The precursors of the later southern alphabets, the alphabet of Kāṭhiāvāḍ from the time of the Western Kṣatrapa Rudradāman (pl. III, col. VI), about A. D. 150; the archaistic type of the western Dekhan from the time of the Kṣatrapa Nahapāna (pl. III, col. VII), beginning of the 2nd century A. D. (?); the more modern-looking alphabet of the same district (occasionally with only faint traces of southern peculiarities) from the time of Nahapāna (pl. III, cols. VIII, IX), of the Andhra king Gotamīputa Sātakaṇi (col. X), of the Andhra king Puḷumāyi (col. XI), of the Andhra king Gotamīputa Siriyaña Sātakaṇi (col. XII), of Nāsik No. 20 (col. XIII), and of the Ābhīra king Īśvarasena (col. XIV), 2nd century A. D.;