Indian Palaeography c3.15

c3.15

I maintain that the shape is based on *tulā* or *bhāra* as is known in the Indian weight system—a shape of weight, going as far as Mohenjodaro, in which case some scholars have wrongly taken it for *liṅga*. If a handle is attached to this symbol, it exactly gives the form of ten, as used in Brāhmī.