Indian Palaeography c15.s4.6

c15.s4.6

'Because, after the burning of the plates, these newly written letters are of different form, therefore they are not forged.' tried to make the characters archaic'.¹ I believe that the manuscripts and the inscriptions follow the current styles of writing, though between them there may be stylistic differences due to the technical reasons already mentioned or to the writers' particular mannerisms. These differences can be detected, and it is hardly necessary to give priority to the manuscripts over the inscriptions in date.²