Indian Epigraphy c8.s2.t7.1

c8.s2.t7.1

The language of a number of inscriptions, discovered in Kathiawar and belonging to the second half of the 14th century, is an admixture of Sanskrit and Gujarātī while, from about the middle of the 15th century, we have inscriptions in the Gujarātī language written in the Nāgarī alphabet slightly modified by the later Gujarātī or Poḍiyā script.⁶ Some of the earliest private records entirely written in the Gujarātī language, so far discovered in Kathiawar, are the Khambhad and Kutiyana inscriptions⁷ of 1474 A.D., the Gosa inscription⁸ of 1480 A.D., and the Khodu inscription⁹ of 1488 A.D.