Indian Palaeography c15.s1.48

c15.s1.48

the desire being to reduce the time taken in producing the complex form without sacrificing its individuality. This description applies only to simplified as distinguished from cursive writing, and I confine myself to the former because I have so far found no true example of early Indian cursive writing,¹ be it on copper plate, stone, palm-leaf, or birch-bark. It is not possible to understand the whole process of simplification as no cursive writing is available for comparison. What I am trying to do is to determine the adoption of the particular simplified forms in the usual course of writing and to find as far as possible the time when they became current. From the available material we can get only a few clues to elucidate