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§ 17... The Dravidi of Bhattiprolu; Plate II. 18. The last four alphabets of Plate II.
§ 19... The precursors of the northern alphabets:
A.
B..
§ 20... The precursors of the southern alphabets:
A.
B.
D..
The alphabet of the Northern Ksatrapas; Plate III. The alphabet of the Kugana inscriptions; Plate III.
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C.The alphabet of the Jaggayyapeta inscriptions; Plate III. The alphabet of the Pallava Prakrit land-grants; Plate III. ...
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The Matṛkās...
B. Medial vowels and so forth...
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The alphabet of the Ksatrapas of Malva and Gujarat; Plate III.
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The alphabets of the cave-inscriptions of the western Dekhan and the Konkan; Plate III.
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§ 21.
Definition and varieties
§ 22... The so-called Gupta alphabet of the 4th and 5th centuries A. D.; Plate IV: A.. Varieties ...
B.
Characteristics of the epigraphic Gupta alphabet
C.
The Gupta alphabet in manuscripts
. Definition and varieties
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The acute-angled and Nagari types; Plates IV, V, VI.
§ 24... Details of the changes in the acute-angled and the Nagari alphabets :A.
C.The ligatures....
§ 25... The Sarada alphabet; Plates V. and VI.
§ 26... Eastern varieties of the Nagari alphabet and the arrow-head script:
A. - Prote-Bengali; Plates V. and VI.
B.The Nepalese hooked characters; Plate VI.
C. The arrow-head alphabet; Plate VI.
IV. The Northern Alphabets from about A. D. 350.
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A. The archaic variety
B.
C.
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The script of Central India
§ 29... The Kanarese and Telugu alphabet; Plates VII. and VIII:
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V.The Southern Alphabets.
The middle variety...
The Old-Kanarese alphabet
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§ 28... The western script and the script of Central India; Plates VII, and VIII:
A.
- The western script
B.
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The later Kalinga script; Plates VII. and VIII.
§ 31... The Grantha alphabet; Plates VII. and VIII:
A. The archaic variety
B.
The middle variety
C.- The transitional Grantha
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§ 32... The Tamil and Vatteluttu alphabets; Plate VIII:
A.The Tamil ...
B.The Vatteluttu
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