Indian Palaeography c15.s1.39

c15.s1.39

In South India embellishment is seen in the upper (in the case of *la*) and lower (in the case of *a*, *ka*, *ta*, and *ra*) curves of the letters (Fig. 15). In the earliest Pallava, Bṛihatphalāyana, and Kadamba² records of the fourth century a.d. the verticals are unusually prolonged downwards, probably from the influence of the Ikshvāku records, but later the normal length is restored. In the seventh century A.D. the curves grow either almost into a circle, as in the