Indian Palaeography c9.s5.10

c9.s5.10

The same system of compounds and stroke addition is followed in the case of ovals and their parts; but in quadrangles, triangles, angles, and crosses, the addition of strokes from 1 to 6 is most common. The only compounds noticed are with the cross, taurine, wheel, or sun within rhombus (Pl. II*b*. II. 8–9, 15), or double tree attached to rhombus (Pl. II*b*. III. 6), or as in Pl. II*b*. III. 2 and VII. 6–7. The arch-like sign is flattened in Pl. II*a*. VI. 9–12 and VIII. 1. The four-armed cross has ovals or crosses at the ends (Pl. II*a*. VIII. 2, 15). It sometimes develops into a six-armed symbol, Pl. II*a*. VIII. 3.