Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c8.s6.t1.7

c8.s6.t1.7

Unmodified or only slightly modified northern forms appear in *A* and *Ā* (plate VIII, 1, 2, XVI), with the single vertical without a curve at the end (compare plate IV, 1, 2, I ff.), and with the loop on the left, which is found in recently discovered inscriptions from Swāt as well as in the Grantha; in *ka* (plate VIII, 11—14, XVI; compare plate IV, 7, I ff.); in *ca* (plate VIII, 16—18, XVI; compare plate III, 11, III); in *ṭa* (plate VIII, 20—22, XVI; compare plate IV, 17, VII, VIII); in *pa* (plate VIII, 30—33, XVI; compare plate IV, 27, I ff.); in *ra* (plate VIII, 36, XVI; compare plate IV, 33, I ff.); in *la* (plate VIII, 37, XVI; compare plate IV, 34, VII ff.); in the medial *u* of *pu*, *mu*, *yu*, *vu* (plate VIII, 32, 40, XVI; compare plate IV, 27, II), and of *ru* (plate VIII, 36, XVI; compare plate IV, 33, III); and in the medial *ū* of *ḷū* and *ḻū* (plate VIII, 44, 46, XVI; compare *pū*, plate IV, 27, IV).