Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c9.s2.t2.8

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In the specimens³ (plate IX, B, cols. III—VIII, XIII) from inscriptions of the 9th and later centuries, when the use of the decimal figures is the rule, we have likewise only cursive signs, which in the 11th and 12th centuries (compare cols. VII, VIII, and XIII) show local differences in the west, east and south. But all their figures have been derived either directly from the letter-numerals of the older system, or from letters with the same phonetic value. The last remark applies to the 9 of cols. III, V, VI ff., which is identical with the signs for *O* used in later inscriptions in the word *Oṁ* (compare, *e.g.*, IA. 6, 194 ff., Nos. 3—6).