Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s5.t2.21

c8.s5.t2.21

The fully-developed and very constant characteristics of the alphabet of the Kūram plates make it probable that they have not arisen within the period of twenty to thirty years, which lies between the issue of the Kūram grant and the incision of the much more archaic Bādāmi inscription of Narasiṁha I. (see above, under *A*). Very likely the Kūram alphabet had a longer history.