The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s39.1

c10.s39.1

It is not always easy to distinguish 𓂝 and 𓂝 in the texts from their shape alone. But that they are distinct is clear (a) from the evidence of their sequences, (b) from the fact that both varieties occur on the same text: see 4, 6, 12, 16, 22, 34, of Table LII. The last sign in Col. IV of Table LII is almost identical with the second sign in Table LIII. Yet the sequence shows that it clearly belongs to Table LII. It is more likely that the two forms had independent pictographic origins, than that the one arose from the other by intentional differentiation. As we have seen when Proto-Indian desired to form new signs by differentiation they did it by the addition of strokes, and that in a manner to make the differentiated sign readily distinguishable.