Indian Palaeography c8.13

c8.13

relating to Peninsular India from the Kṛishṇā river to the Vindhya hills, that is, for the Dekhan, Koṅkaṇ and Gujarat . . . representing the characters used in the numerous inscriptions, especially those in the cave temples from the age of Aśoka, 250 B.C., till the end of the eighth century, when the old type of alphabet, founded on the Pāli or Mauryan, was disappearing, the Devanāgarī taking its place over the northern portions of this area, and the Canarese in the south.³