Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s14.t2.8

c7.s14.t2.8

Attention must be called to the medial *r̥* in *tr̥* (21, IV) and [42] in *vr̥* (34, III), for which we have also once³ the form of pl. IV, 3, III; likewise to the rather common final *m*, which resembles that in *ddham* (41, VIII), and to the Visarga, which looks exactly like the modern one (compare 40, 41, IX) and first appears in these inscriptions.⁴ The broad strokes of the letters and their thick tops indicate that they imitate an alphabet written with ink.