Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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INDIAN BRANCH
383 plate is obviously more cursive and less ornamental and conservative than the style of the monumental stone inscriptions. It is due to a lucky coincidence that examples of the early Grantha lithic style seem to be preserved in the early inscriptions of Further India (Fig. 174,3).
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Fig. 174 1. Sarna Kanarese inscription from Kopbal. 2, Part of a Telugu inscription from Korkonda. 3, Rock inscription in "Shell character," discovered ar Ci-Aruton (Java) and attributed to the fourth-fifth century A.D. (published by Jayaswal in 1935). It may be considered as
written in the early Grantha lithic style
