Indian Palaeography c14.21

c14.21

There are other changes affecting local varieties. In the Mathura inscriptions of the Kushāṇa period, and as an influence in a few others, the *anusvāra* is shown as a short line in place of the dot. In the inscriptions of the later Western Kshatrapas the medial *au* has its double stroke on the right joined in a curve (Fig. 8. VI). In the early Gupta inscriptions the medial *ā* is shown by a long horizontal line with an additional tick downwards (Fig. 8. V), a practice that became common in the subsequent period.