Indian Palaeography c16.s1.32

c16.s1.32

H. Pl. XIX. 13 is taken from the Kondakadu rock inscription of Upatissa. The writing is a further development from the style described in group G above. Here the letter forms are identical with those seen in no. 11, but there is a stylistic difference. The writer in this inscription prefers to add small circles at the beginning or end of the lines. This tendency is known only from the Bannahalli plates of the Kadamba ruler Kṛishṇavarman II (Pl. XVI. 3), which has already been dated¹ in the mid sixth century a.d. This particular tendency gives further support to the suggestion that the style of writing seen in no. 11 is borrowed from this region of peninsular India. The present inscription may be placed in the early seventh century a.d.