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FEBRUARY, 1892.)
DATE OF THE BOWER MANUSCRIPT.
sh is not always used in them. Thus in the thoroughly North-Eastern inscription of Kahâum (No. 13), we have the North-Western form of sh in the ligature ksh of kshitipa (line 3), while the North-Eastern form is used in the ligatures rsh and shth of varshé and jyéshtha respectively (line 4). I may add, that in the new Faridpur inscription, in which both the dental and cerebral sibilants are of very frequent occurrence, they can only be distinguished with great difficulty.
Similar remarks apply to No. 4 of List I. No instance of the letter sh is preserved in it, but the characteristic form of the dental s helps to assign it to the North-Western variety.
In the first List I have indicated, by means of a cross (+), those inscriptions which shew instances of the transitional or modern cursive forms of ya ; these are Nos. 3, 5, 10, 14, 15, 23, 28, 33, 34, 35.
LIST I. - Inscriptions in the Gupta variety of the North-Western Alphabet.
Serial No.
Publication.
Name of Inscription.
Name of King, etc.
Sams. A.D.
370
370
428
| 371
400
400
415
96 106 135
.......
No. 21
Hastin ..
146 156 163
45+ 460 465 475 482 484 493 496 500 300 508 510 510 510
........
Fleet's No. 58
Bijayagadh ............ Yaudhêyas ...................... No. 57 Pahl&dpur
Sisupala ......................... +Bijayagadh
Vishnu Vardhana ......... Mathura .............
Chandra Gupta II (395-414) ...... No. 67 ....... Tusdm .............. Bilsad ............
Kumara Gupta I ............ No. 61 ...... Udayagiri ......... (Kum&ra Gupta I) No. 63 Mathura ..
(Skanda Gupta) ................. No. 18 Bhitart.....
Skanda Gupta (455-468) ..... No. 16 +Indor
Skanda Gupta Khôh...............................: No. 22 do. ...**.
do. ...................... No. 19 Eran ............
Budhagupta No. 26 ...... +Kerdtaldi
Jayanstha +Khôh
do. ..... Nirmand... Samudra Sena ......... No. 36 ......... Eran ......... ....
Tôramâna (494-510)" No. 24 Bhumara ...............
Sarvanatha .................. Bardbar ...............
Ananta Varman............... No. 49 Nagdrjunt
do. . ....... No. 50 ........ do. ............
do. No. 20 ........ Eran..
Gôparaja ................ No. 23 ........ Majhgawâm ......... Hastin ................. . Epigr. Ind. I, p. 238.....
Kurd ......
.
Tôramana ................. Fleet's No. 28 ...... Khôh........................... Sarvanatha .......................... No. 30 .... do. ..........
do. ......................... No. 29 .. do. **
do. ............ No. 51 .. Jaunpur............
Isvara Varman (520-540) ......... No. 25 Khôi... .................................
Sarokshobha ............. No. 37 Gwaliyêr ...........
Mihirakula (515-540).............. Journ. A.S.B.,LVIII., 88. Bhitari (seal) KumAra Gupta II. Fleet's No. 33 ......... Mandasör ....... Yasodbarman ................. No. 36 + do. ......
do. ................. No. 31 Khôh
Sarvapatha................. No. 35 † Mandasôr............ Yasodharman .......... No. 70 Mathura ............... No. 47 Asirgadh (seal) ...... Sarva Varman (565-570) ..........
No.
No. 48
510
198
197
510 510 512 516 516
525 209 528
530 530 5.30 330 533
533 230 549
565
11 See Journal, A. S. Beng., Vol. LVIII. p. 98.
