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Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c9.s1.2

Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c9.s1.2

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c9.s1.2

In the Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions of the Śakas, of Gondopherres, and of the Kuṣanas, from the 1st century B. C. and the 1st and 2nd centuries A. D., as well as in other probably later documents, we find a system of numeral notation (plate I, col. XIV)² which DOWSON first explained with the help of the Taxila copper-plate.³