Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t1.17

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(11) The dot to the right of *ṅa*, which is so characteristic in the modern Devanāgarī letter, appears already on the Benares copper-plate of Karṇa of A. D. 1042 in the word *jaṅgama* (line 11, end),² while our plates offer only an example from a much later document (see plate V, 14, XIX). The dot may possibly have been derived from the protuberance, which is often found at the end of the top-stroke of the letter (see, *e. g.*, plate V, 14, V, VI, VIII).