Indian Epigraphy c14.s5.13

c14.s5.13

Some of the inscriptions of Yaśovarman, who flourished about the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century A.D., are written in the Siddhamātṛkā alphabet while some of his other records giving regulations about *āśramas* are both in the said alphabet and in the Cambodian derivative of Brāhmī. This fact suggests that there were fresh arrivals apparently from North or East India, who were not familiar with the latter alphabet. Contact with South India during the early medieval period seems to be indicated by the Prasat Kandol Dom inscription² of king Indravarman who flourished about the end of the 9th century, according to which the king’s *guru* Śivasoma studied the scriptures at the feet of Bhagavat Śaṅkara, apparently the great Indian philosopher of the same name who was born in the western coast of South India.