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(4) In the Śaka type, we have a cursive form of *ca*; derived from 10, III, in which the left end of the lower portion of the sign is attached to the short vertical below the top. Similar, still more cursive, forms are common in the Kuṣana variety; see 10, X, and XII. — (5) All the later varieties show the *cha* without the cross-bar, and the vertical is occasionally made to slant so that the sign looks like *mo*. — (6) In the later varieties, the left side-limb of *ja* is nearly always rounded, and in the Kuṣana variety the head of the sign often consists of a shallow curve, from the left end of which the vertical hangs down (12, XI). Hence is developed the looped *ja* (12, XII) of the Bimāran vase. The full *ja* with the bar across or to the left of the foot occurs on the Indo-Grecian coins (12, VII). — (7) In all the later varieties, one side of *ña* invariably shows a vertical (14, VIII, IX).