Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s17.t2.4

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(3) Since the middle of the 5th century, the lower portion of the left limb of *A* (1, IX, XI) shows the curve, open to the left, which appears in all the later forms of the letter; the sign of the length of *Ā* (2, VII—IX) [48] is attached to the foot of the right vertical.