Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s19.t3.3

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(2) For the stone inscriptions of the acute-angled alphabet, the subscript *ya* frequently is made ornamental and drawn far to the left. Since the 7th century, and occasionally even earlier, the right-hand upstroke of *ya* is drawn up as far as the upper line of the whole sign (see, *e. g.*, plate IV, 46, VIII, XIX; 43, 45, XIII; VI, 51, VI).