Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t6.57

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In upper southern India, the Telugu-Kannada script began to approach the modern forms of Kannada and Telugu in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These two scripts are only minimally differentiated, the main contrast being the shape of the head mark, which takes a form like a check mark in Telugu and a horizontal line with a hook at the upper right in Kannada.