Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s5.1

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¹ Preparation of Plate I: — 1—37, cols. I—V, and 38, 39, cols. I—XIII, traced by Dr. Dedekind from Dr. Burgess' impressions of the Aśoka edicts of Shāhbāzgarhī and Mansehra, and reduced by photography. 1—37, cols. VI, VII, and 38, 39, col. XIV, drawn by Dr. W. Cartellieri from P. Gardner's autotypes of Indo-Grecian coins. 1—37, cols. VIII, IX, and 22—25, col. XIII, traced from Dr. Burgess' impressions of the Mathurā lion capital and the photograph of the Taxila copper-plate of which a collotype has since then been published in *EI.* 4, 55 (10 and 14, col. VIII, and 25, col. XIII). 1—37, cols. X—XII, and 31—37, col. XIII, traced or drawn according to Dr. Hoernle's facsimile of the Suë Bihār inscription, supplemented by some signs from the Manikāla stone and gelatine copies of the Wardak and Bimāran vases by Dr. S. von Oldenburg. 23—30, col. XIII, drawn according to P. Gardner's autotypes of the older Kuṣana coins. 1—20, cols. XIII, XIV, numerals drawn according to the impressions and facsimiles of the Aśoka edicts and later inscriptions. Older tables of the Kharoṣṭhī alphabet, in P.*IA.* 2, 166, pl. 11; W.*AA.* 262; C.*IA*(CII. 1), pl. 27: P. Gardner, *Cat. I. C. Br. Mus.* p. LXX. f. ; Von Sallet, *Nachfolger Alex. d. Gr.* (end); G. H. Ozha, *The Ind. Pal.* pl. 26.