Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t1.33

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(26) Both the MSS., and most inscriptions, with the exception of one from Udaypur (above, page 48, note 3) and some from Nepāl (page 50), offer exclusively the looped or the bipartite *ya*, which latter occurs already in the inscriptions of the Kuṣaṇa period,¹ and has been derived from the looped form.² In the Nepalese inscriptions of the 7th century, which show the eastern *ṣa*,³ we find a tripartite *ya* with a small circle at the top of the first upstroke (plate IV, 32, XVII); the Udaypur inscription has both the ordinary tripartite *ya* of the Gupta period, and also the bipartite letter.