The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s15.1

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From the evidence of their shape and sequences there can be no doubt that the 2nd, 4th and 5th signs in Col. IV are identical. Again the evidence of the sequence ♁ * R " is so powerful that we must conclude that the third sign T which has no neighbour in shape among the other signs of the Proto-Indian script, is an abbreviated or simplified, probably later form of ♁ . This view is strengthened by the shape of the last sign in the text (No. 12) which, as we have urged in the analysis of Table I, must be regarded as a late form of the sign ♁ . It is interesting to observe that both these late forms approximate to the shape of the corresponding signs in Brahmi. (See comparative Morphographic Table).