Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s1.17

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(1) The western variety, which, being strongly influenced by the northern alphabets, is the ruling script between about A. D. 400 and about A. D. 900 in Kāṭhiāvāḍ, Gujarāt, the western portion of the Marāṭhā districts, *i. e.* the Collectorates of Nāsik, Khāndesh and Sātārā, in the part of Haidarābād (Ajaṇṭā) contiguous to Khāndesh, and in the Koṅkaṇ, and which during the 5th century occasionally occurs also in Rājputāna and the Central Indian Agency, but altogether disappears in the 9th century in consequence of the inroads of the Nāgarī alphabet (see above, § 21).