Indian Palaeography c13.s3.1

c13.s3.1

At Kanhiara and Pathyar¹ small rock inscriptions in Brāhmī and Kharoshṭhī have been discovered. The Kanhiara Brāhmī inscription mentions the name of Kṛishṇayaśa, and the writing shows the angular feature of the Mathura Kshatrapa records. It may be dated in the first century A.D. The Pathyar inscription shows deliberate elongation of the verticals and the letters are also crudely drawn. Vogel places it in the third century B.C., but the accompanying Kharoshṭhī record indicates that the elongation is a freak of the writer. The inscription should be dated in the first century A.D.