Indian Palaeography c10.2

c10.2

Many writers have loosely compared the signs in the Indus Script with the symbols occurring on the punch-marked coins. About eleven recognizable symbols have also been found on a copper band discovered at Patna. A few are known from Kumrahar columns and from the Rampurva copper bolt, and some have been noticed on copper plates, the best known being on the Sohgaura plate. In fact such symbols are in use right down to the present day in India, and the village women can be seen decorating their floors and walls with them. Today they hardly signify more than auspicious marks.