[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Palaeography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963) › c9.s3.4 # Indian Palaeography c9.s3.4 Indian Palaeography c9.s3.4 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3.4) A new principle of classification has been adopted here. Pl. I\*a\*, group A, illustrates stylized living beings; group B of this plate and Pl. I\*b\* show objects which can be easily recognized. In Pl. II \*a\*, \*b\* are shown those symbols which take geometrical forms, such as ovals, triangles, quadrangles, angles, crosses, &c. A few of these can also be construed as highly stylized forms, e.g. the oval (Pl. II\*a\*. 1. 1)¹ does not appear to be different from the objects hanging from either end of the pole carried by the man in Pl. I\*a\*. IV. 2–11. Again in Pl. II\*a\* the two complicated symbols in columns 14 and 15 are obviously magical emblems—one of crosses and the other of the mysterious so-called taurines and a square. Pl. II\*b\* shows in the last five lines strokes—horizontal, vertical, or slanting—often in combination as they have been actually found. In Pl. II\*b\*. XII. 10–15 are given the symbols, termed brackets, as they are found bracketing other symbols in the seals (see reading no. 2). In Pl. II\*a\* seven readings have been given. - [Previous: c9.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3.3) - [Next: c9.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3.5) - [Up: c9.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9.s3.4) · Pramāṇa