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Notes and References
1. Elements of South Indian Palaeography, London, 1878, p., 52, infra 2. 2. Diringer, David, The Alphabet, London, 1949, p., 358. 3. Taylor, Isaac, The Alphabet, vol., II, London, 1883, p., 349, infra 3. 4. Indian Palaeography, Oxford, 1963, p., 112. 5. Sastri, K.N., EI, XXXI, p., 28. 6. “The origin of the Nāgaras and Nāgarī-alphabet," JASB, Lxv, p., 115. 7. Syamasundaradas, ed. vol., V, Varanasi, 1968, pp. 2361-62. 8. “Devanagarī and the Muhammadan Rulers of India " JBORS, XXIII, p., 493. 9. A Sanskrit Grammar, New Delhi, 1979 (1866), P., 3. 10. A Sanskrit Grammar, London, 1960 (1889), p., 1. 11. Alphabet. p., 360. 12. Indian Systems of Writing, Delhi, 1966, p., 15. 13. Prāchina Abhilenkhon me Devanāgarī,” Devanāgarī Lipi Svarup, Vikās evaṁ Sāmasyaen
(Hindi) ed. by Joglekar, N.C. & B.D. Tiwari, Lucknow, Samvat 2019, p., 219. 14. Nāgarī Lipi aur Hindi Vartanī (Hindi), Patna, 1973, p., 68. 15. The concerned verse are:
"Māhārashtrī tathāvantī Saurasenyardhamlāgadhi Vanlīki Māgadhi chaiva shadetā (another reading ashteta) Dakshiņātyajah || Brāchando Lātavaidarbhāvupanāgaranāgaraul Varvarāvantya-Pāñchala-Țākka- Mālava-Kaikayāḥ || Gaudodra-Daiva-Pāñchatya-Pandya-Kauntala-Saim halaḥ| Kālinga-Prāchya-Kārņāta-Kāñchya-Drāvida-Gaurjarāḥ || Abhīro Madhyadesīyaḥ Sūkshmabhedavyavasthitāḥ ||
Saptavimšatyapabhraísa vaidālādiprbhedataḥ II. 16. Linguistic Survey of India, IX, Pt. II, p., 327. 17. Development of Script in Ancient Kamrupa, Assam, 1976, p., 30. 18. History of India and Eastern Architecture, vol., II, London, 1910, p., 84 ff. 19. Indian Epigraphy: Its Bearing on the History of Art, Calcutta, 1985, pp. 210–11. 20. The Hindu Temple, vol., I, p., 292. 21. Višeshāvaśyakabhāshyavritti, p., 256 -
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