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D
E
F
52
I
Those symbols that are accompanied by equivalents in words aff rd, with certain limitations, a criterion by which other examples may be judged. Any doub: about any particular forms is here generally due to the state of the inscription itself, but the evidence is on the whole unambiguous and shows distinctly that there was a definite system in use which varied to a surprisingly small extent over a lengthy period and wide area.
The first part (A to I) of the accompanying table gives nearly all such examples as occur in the volumes of the Epigraphia Indica, in Fleet's Gupta Inscriptions, etc. The Asoka examples have, however, been relegated to another part of the table for reasons that will be given below, and such examples as occur in the Tekkeri inscription have been omitted, because the readings are not clear enough to be of use as evidence. In the first portion (A to 1) of the table, it will be noticed (1) that the symbol for fifty' does not appear at all; (2) the eight, and nine,' thirty'
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44
2344
A
=42
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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
81930
9
25
Y3
249
RO
2No
2340 v
706
23
y
341)
TABLE II.
7.37 47
[FEBRUARY, 1911.
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7
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