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Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t1.37

Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t1.37

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c7.s19.t1.37

(27) The right extremity of the wedge at the lower end of *ra* is often greatly elongated in the inscriptions of the 7th and later centuries (plate IV, 33, XVIII—XXI, &c.), and sometimes only the outlines of the wedge are marked. These forms are the precursors of the modern tailed *ra*.