Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s17.t2.17

c7.s17.t2.17

(13) The left limb of *sa* (38, I—III, V, VI, VIII) often becomes a loop, as happens already in some Kuṣana inscriptions (§ 19, B, 16). A substitute for the loop is the triangle (probably giving the outlines of a wedge), which occurs in the three most ancient inscriptions from Nepāl; compare the later *sa* of 38, XII. But the older hook is equally common.