Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s16.12
Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s16.12
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(1) The epigraphic North-Indian alphabet of the 4th and 5th centuries, commonly called the Gupta alphabet, which, according to HOERNLE's researches,¹ has an eastern and a western variety, among which the second again has two branches, and with the western variety of which the literary alphabet of the Bower MS. and of some other documents from Kashgar is closely connected.