Indian Epigraphy c10.s3.1

c10.s3.1

In both manuscripts and inscriptions, a letter omitted by the scribe through oversight was generally written above or below the line near the spot of omission with or without any indication.³ Often letters or groups of them thus omitted were engraved in the margin and, in such cases, generally the number of the line, in which the matter written above or below the record would have to be read, was indicated by mentioning its number counted in the first case from the top and in the latter from the bottom.⁴ Sometimes the place of omission is indicated by a sign.⁵