Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s17.t2.5

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(4) In addition to the *I* of the Kuṣana .period (3, I, V), there occur, owing to the predilection for letters flattened at the top, the also later frequent *I* with two dots above (3, VII), and that consisting of a short horizontal line with two dots below (3, IX), which latter is the parent of the later southern *I* (plates VII, VIII, and § 28 below) and of that of the Nāgarī (below, § 24, A, 4).