Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c7.s7.t1.4

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(8) The only known *ṭa* of the Śaka period in the ligature *ṣṭe* (22, XIII) shows the archaic form with one bar on the left; compare 15, III. In the Kuṣana variety, the two bars to the right and left (15, I) are converted into a straight line, whereby *ṭa* becomes *tha* (15, X—XII). The small strokes at the top of *ṭu* (15, XI) are, as FLEET's impression of the Suë Bihār inscription shows, due to rents in the copper. The correct reading of the word, in which it occurs, is *kuṭubini* instead of *kichubini* (HOERNLE). — (9) In all [29] the later varieties, *ṭha* (16, VIII, X, XI) loses the hook at the end of the second bar.