Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s16.19

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During the 4th and 5th centuries, the rule of these alphabets to the north of the Narmadā is by no means undisputed. In the west we find, as far north as Bijayagaḍh (Bhartpur), inscriptions in southern characters, or with an admixture of southern letters (see below, § 27). In the 6th and 7th centuries this mixture no longer occurs. Only the so-called "arrow-head" type (see below, § 26, C), the seventh variety on plates IV—VI, which appears in rather late times in Bengal and Nepāl, offers an instance of the importation of a southern script into Northern India.