Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s5.2

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According to plate I, the Kharoṣṭhī shows four chief varieties, *viz.*: — (1) the archaic one of the fourth and third centuries B. C., found in the Aśoka edicts of Shāhbāzgarhī (photolithograph of edict VII. in *ZDMG.* 43, 151, and of edict XII. in *EI.* 1, 16) and of Mansehra (photolithograph of edicts I—VIII. in *JA.* 1888, 2, 330, = Senart, *Notes d'Épigraphie Indienne*, 1), with which the signature in the Aśoka edicts of Siddāpura (photolithographs in *EI.* 3, 138—140), the legends on the oldest coins (autotypes in C.*CAI.* pl. 3, Nos. 9, 12, 13) and the syllables on the Persian *sigloi* (autotypes in *J.RAS.* 1895, 865) fully agree.