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Appendix 11
first three symbols given in the first three squares of the Ist plate, (ii) one of its variants or (iii) the combinations of one of them with or without a danda or daņdas and a cipher or ciphers.' ..
The sign placed by the letter og in the 34th square, the last but one in the ist plate is generally regarded as one for anu svāra. ? But it appears that in this Ms. and some others as well, it is used for a dash and for ornamentation, too. It seems it is used for upadhmaniya also as can be seen from “The Palæography of India”, plate XXVII.
Various signs have been used up till now while combining vowels with consonants. In plate No. XX given in The Palæography of India there are four distinct ways to be noticed regarding a sign for . One of them (the sign used for 3 in 1 ) can be compared with what is used here above q' in the 35th square, the last in the first plate. Pandit Ohja has observed on p.3 that this is a matra of str and it belongs to the Kutila script.
The sign occurring in the sand square (i. e. the 17th of the 2nd plate ) is one we meet with for jihvāmuliya and upadlımàniya spirants, the ist when a visarga is followed by and q, and the 2nd, when it is followed by q and a respectively.
The sign given in the 53rd square (i. e. the 18th of the 2nd plate) stands for the sign of avagraha (separator') which is used in the Mss. for three different purposes : (i) to mark the elision of initial
1 While going through this proof-sheet I learn that Prof. A. B. Keith has kindly replied to the Curator through whom I had inquired about the Jaina diagram. His reply is as under :
".....the Jaina diagram referred to normally resembles the first form (6) given in Prof. Kapadia's letter and is sometimes held to be intended as an abbreviation of arbam,”
2 Compare the Bengali method of writing anusvāra. 3. On fol. 3b of No. 1086 (FETTSÄTTET), in the end we have
1887-91' 4. For additional examples see the sign above n on fol. 10 of No. 237
1873-74 (HETETLETSTÍTETLEIST#l), the sign 01 on fol. zö of No. 1403. (FTLIGHT)
1886-92 and the sign on Ton fol. 153a of No. 300 (Tanaqatata FT).
1883-84
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