Indian Palaeography c15.s2.16.2

c15.s2.16.2

Another development is seen in the inscriptions of the Kanauj Maukharis, where the base slightly slopes to the right and the outer curves are slightly prolonged. *Tha* henceforward copies the form of *dha* with an additional mid-line. *Da* has a double curve meeting at a point, the upper curve opening to the left and the lower to the right, the tip of the last being turned up. This form will henceforward be called the double-curved *da*. The looped *na* is found here, but in the inscriptions of the Kanauj Maukharis this loop develops into a head and is joined by a bar to the right vertical. No change is seen in the forms of *pa*, *pha*, *ba*, and *ma*, except that at Amauna the old open-mouthed form of *ma* persists. *Bha* has developed a triangular head at the bottom of the left limb, but the old triangular form of *bha* is seen at Amauna. *Ya* has three types: the first is the tripartite form with an inner loop at the left limb and the base divided into a straight right half and a curved left half—a development from the Kushāṇa type; the second has an outward curl at the left limb instead of the loop, a type also seen in the eastern region; and the third is the hooked *ya* (henceforward called bipartite *ya*), seen earlier as a subscript. That it is adapted from the old form, and not a new invention, is clearly observable in the varying forms of the same type in the Haraha inscription of Īśānavarman.