Indian Palaeography c12.s6.19

c12.s6.19

In both these cases *ta* is an adjunct of the first letter which is fully drawn. The reading of *pta* as *tpa* in the word *ātpa-pāsaṃḍa* is grammatically justified, but whether that was the actual pronunciation at the time is doubtful. If it was so, it has to be reckoned as an exception like *ṣṭa* in (vi). But more probably this was not the case, if we remember how the letters are reversed in popular language; e.g. *kāchū* for *chākū* in Punjābī. Hence even the *ṣṭa* of (vi) occurring at Girnar is a mistake, just as is *yva* at the same place.