Indian Palaeography c15.s1.14

c15.s1.14

B IV. *The Rajasthani style.* With Rajasthan was intimately associated Malwa, which, because of its peculiar geographical position, was open to influences from the north as well as the south. The curled tails of the verticals and the side notches continued in the Gupta period, but towards the close of the sixth century A.D. a distinctive style developed which, along with the Mathura style, underwent a further change to become the precursor of the Nāgarī script. This region was the original homeland of Nāgarī, and it was from this source that the Rāshṭrakūṭas derived their proto-Nāgarī writing.