Indian Palaeography c12.s6.1

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c12.s6.1

The conjuncts are formed by placing one consonant on the top of the other. Unlike the practice in modern Indian scripts, the first letter is fully formed and the second is cursively added. According to the later rule the first letter should be mutilated, so as to drop its vowel, as the Sanskrit grammar requires, but this is not the case in Aśokan Brāhmī.¹ In Aśokan Brāhmī the following conjuncts are found:

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