Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t2.3

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(3) Medial *ū* is expressed very frequently by the initial *Ū* of the period (plate IV, 30, XII, XIV, XVI, XX; VI, 44, VI). [56] But an older form, found, *e. g.*, in *pū* (IV, 27, VI), is also common and appears to be the parent of the modern *ū*, which occurs already in the western palm-leaf MSS. (see *pū*, plate VI, 35, XVI).