Indian Epigraphy c14.s5.4

c14.s5.4

Late Brāhmī of West and South India, which was introduced in Cambodia, gradually underwent modification in the same way as in different parts of India. The orthography of the Sanskrit epigraphs of Cambodia exhibit the substitution of *ḍ* for *d* and *ṇ* for *n* and vice versa and sometimes even of *ṇḍ* for *nd*. The use of *ṅ* for *anusvāra*, the change of visarga before a sibilant to the same sibilant, the occasional reduplication of a consonant before and after *r* as well as before *v*, the use of *tv* for *ttv* and of *jihvāmūlīya* and *upadhmānīya* for visarga before the guttural and labial surds, the occasional use of *candrabindu* for *anusvāra* and the rarity of cases in which *v* is distinguished from *b*, etc., are some of the orthographical features of the Sanskrit inscriptions of Cambodia.¹