The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s28.10

c10.s28.10

What sort of a graphic modification then is this which usually alters the sense, but not always; which alters the sound but slightly; which has a marked tendency to attach itself to certain syllables when final? An indication may be obtained through Table XXXIII, No. 9. Here we have a sign 𐀎 which is almost certainly to be identified with 𐀏, seeing how often 𐀁 attaches itself to the fish group, including the variety 𐀐. Now if we turn to the Asoka Edicts we find 𐀑 represents the anusvar - and indeed does still in the scripts derived therefrom to this day! It is possible that this is the Brahmin reduction of a sign which in Proto-Indian on grounds of symmetry, was distributed equally about the sign 1. and indeed solus.