Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s21.t2.4

c7.s21.t2.4

The first of the two specimens of this character in plate VI, col. XI, which is derived from the Cambridge MS. No. 1691, of A. D. 1179,³ shows in the majority of the letters the forms of the Horiuzi palm-leaves and of the Cambridge MS. No. 1049 (cols. V—VII), with a few small modifications, such as might be expected in a much later document. Irrespective of the hooks, special Bengālī peculiarities are observable only in *I*, *Ī*, *E* and *AI*. Generally speaking, these remarks hold good also for the second specimen in plate VI, col. XII, from the British Museum MS., Oriental No. 1439, of A. D. 1286.⁴ But in this script the Bengālī influence is visible in *E*, *ṇa*, *dha* and *śa* (compare the transitional forms of V, 39, XVIII, XIX), while its *I* is very archaic.⁵