Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t1.10

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(6) The curve of *Ṛ*, attached to the right of the *ra*, becomes very shallow and long in the Horiuzi palm-leaves (plate VI, 7, V), and this shallow curve is the precursor of the vertical line of the later palm-leaf MSS. of Western India (plate VI, 7, XV—XVII). In the Cambridge MS. No. 1049 (plate VI, 7, VII) and in No. 1691, the *ṛ*-curve is attached to the lower end of the *ra*.