Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s6.t1.6

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Specific Grantha forms occur in *U* (plate VIII, 5, XVI; compare plate VII, 4, XXIV); in *O* (plate VIII, 9, XVI; compare col. XV); in *ta* (plate VIII, 25—28, XVI; compare plate VII, 22, XXIV); in *na* (plate VIII, 29, XVI; compare plate VII, 26, XXIV); in *ya* (plate VIII, 35, XVI; compare plate VII, 32, XXIV); in medial *u* in *ku* (plate VIII, 14, XVI; compare 44, XIII); in medial *e* (in *te*, plate VIII, 28, XVI; compare *khe*, plate VII, 9, XXIV); and in the vertical Virāma, which mostly stands above the vowelless consonant but to the right of *n* and *r* (compare *n*, plate VIII, 15, XVI; *m*, 34; *ḷ*, 43; *ṉ*, 49). The Tamil *ai* (for instance, *nai*, plate VIII, 29, XVI) appears to be a peculiar derivative from the Grantha *ai*, the two Mātrās having been placed, not one above the other, but one behind the other.