Indian Palaeography c13.s2.t1.17

c13.s2.t1.17

Series I includes the casket inscriptions of Stūpa III and most of the railing inscriptions of Stūpa I. Here we find some letters which resemble those in the Heliodorus inscription, but there are some features, such as the straight vertical of *bha* and the single horizontal line for medial *o*, which are so distinctive that they appear to occupy an intermediary position between the Heliodorus inscription and series II of Sanchi. Hence the inscriptions of series I may fairly be placed in the earlier half of the first century B.C.