Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s5.t3.7
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s5.t3.7
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The golden age of calligraphic writing in the south occurred in the tenth to twelfth centuries. The calligraphic inscriptions of this period are characterized by extreme elaboration of the vowel diacritics and subscript consonants of the first and last lines, forming elaborate floral and zoological motifs as a decorative border at the top and bottom of the inscription; see, for example, the Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa inscription of Malliṣeṇa (EI 3, plates between pages 194 and 195).