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Introduction
Mälavini Nadi Nagarī Lāḍalivī Pārasi ya Bodhavvä Taha Animira ya livi Chanakki Müladevi ya "
22. Malayagiriya Nandivṛitti, p., 188
"Tatra Nagarim Lipimadhikritya kimchit pradarsyate"
23. Sachau, E.C., Alberuni's India, New Delhi, 1964, p., 173.
24. "The Origin"., p., 128.
25. "Antiquity of Writing in India," JBORS, VIII, pp. 111 and 115.
26. A Higher Sanskrit Grammar, Delhi, 1960, p., 1.
27. "A Theory of the Origin of the Devanagari Alphabet," IA, XXXV, pp. 253--67, 270-90 & 311-24.
28. Alphabet., p., 349.
29. "Paleographic," L'inde Classique, Manuel Des E'iudes Indiennes, Paris, 1953, p... 678, quoted in Development of Brähmi with Special Reference to the Origin and Development of Nagarī, An unpublished thesis by Shashi Bala submitted for Ph. D. degree of Punjab University, Chandigarh.
30. "A Theory"., p., 255.
31. Ek-Bharati 'Vishvanagari' the Romanised "Devanagari for national integration and universal brotherhood, Bombay, 1975, p., 15.
32. Historical and Cultural Dictionary of India, New York, 1976, pp. 72-73.
33. "Prachina Abhilenkhon.", p., 219.
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34. Nāgarī Lipi., p., 68.
35. "A Detailed Exposition of the Nägarī, Gujarātī and Modi Scripts," ABORI, XIX, p.. 389.
36. H.K. Bhattacharya has emphatically asserted that Brahmi cannot be called the mother of Nagari and that the latter has a different origin. The Language and Scripts of Ancient India, Calcutta, 1959, pp. 113-14.
37. Lüders, H., Bruchstücke der Kalpanamaṇḍitikā Des Kumaralāta, Leipzig, 1926.
38. Chakravarti, S.N., EI, XXVI, pp. 130-32, Pl. f. p., 131.
39. Hoernle, Rudolf A.F., Bower Manuscript, ASI, Calcutta, 1893-1912.
40. Fleet, J.F., Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol., III, Varanasi, 1963, pp. 152-54, PI. XXII.
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41. Dani, pp. 113-18.
42. Verma, T.P., The Palaeography of Brahmi Script in North India, Varanasi, 1971, p...
109.
43. Verma, Development of Script., p., 14.
44. "On the Date of the Bower Manuscript," JASB, LX, p., 81.
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