Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s10.4

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(2) The older Maurya alphabet of the Aśoka edicts¹ (pl. II, cols. II—XII), which occurs also with local variations on the Persian sigloi² and the old coins from Taxila, &c.,³ in the majority of the inscriptions on the Bharahut Stūpa (pl. II, 6, XVIII; 45, XI), in Gayā,⁴ Sāñci,⁵ and Parkham,⁶ on the Patnā seals, on the Sohgaura copper-plate,⁷ and on the stone of Ghasundi or Nagarī (pl. II, col. XVI), and probably prevailed at least in the latter half of the 4th and in the 3rd century B. C.