Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s13.7
Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s13.7
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Very little can be said regarding the duration of the use of these scripts. The Indo-Grecian coins show that the younger Maurya characters were used in the first half of the 2nd century B. C.¹ The Kaliṅga script is visible also in the inscriptions of Khāravela's next descendants.² If Burgess has correctly fixed the time of the Pitalkhorā caves,³ it would follow that the script of the Nānāghāṭ inscriptions continued to be used in the first century A. D.