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(2) The older Maurya alphabet of the Asoka edicts! (pl. II, cols. II-XII), which occurs 150 with local variations on the Persian siglors and the old coins from Taxila, &c., in the una jority of the inscriptions on the Bharahut Stūpa (pl. II, 6, XVIII; 45, XI), in Gaya, Süñei, and Parkham, on the Patnā seals, on the Sohgaura copper-plate, and on the stone of Ghasundi or Nagari (pl. II, col. XVI), and probably prevailed at least in the latter half of the 4th and in the 3rd century B. C.
(3) The Drāvidi of Bhattiprolu (pl. II, cols. XIII-XV), which is connected with the southern variety of the Maurya type, but includes many very archaic signs; about B. C. 200.
(4) The later Maurya alphabet of Dasaratha's inscription (pl. II, col. XVII), closely related to the characters on the coins of the Indo-Grecian kings Agathocles and Pantaleon ;' about B. C. 200 to 180.
(5) The Sunga alphabet of the Toraña of Bharahut (pl. II, col. XVIII), which agrees with that of the Pabhosa inscriptions (pl. II, col. XIX), of the later votive inscriptions on the rails of the Bharahut and Sāñci Stūpas, 9 of the oldest Mathurā inscriptionglo (pl. II, col. XX), of the Riwā inscription, and so forth ;12 2nd to 1st centuries B. C.
(6) The older Kalinga alphabet of the Katak (Hathigampha) caves (pl. II, cols. XXI, XXI); about B. C. 150.
(7) The archaic alphabet of the western Dekhan in the Nānāghāt inscription (pl. II, cols. XXIII, XXIV), which is found also in Nāsik No. 1, in Pitalkhorā, and in Ajantā Nos. 1, 2;13 from about B. C. 150 to the 1st century A. D.
(8,9) The precursors of the later northern alphabets, the alphabet of the inscriptions of the Northeru Kşatrapa Sodūsa and of the archaic votive inscriptions from Mathura (pl. III, cols. I, II), 1st century B. C. to 1st century A, D. (?), and the Kuşana alphabet of the reigns of Kaniska, Huvişka and Vasudeva (pl. III, cols. III-V), 1st and 2nd (?) centuries A. D.
(10-15) The precursors of the later southern alphabets, the alphabet of Kathiāvād from the time of the Western Kşatrapa Rudradāman (pl. III, col. VI), about A. D. 150 ; the archaistic type of the western Dekhan from the time of the Ksatrapa Nahapāna (pl. III, col. VII), beginning of the 2nd century A, D. (?); the more modern-looking alphabet of the same district (occasionally with only faint traces of southern peculiarities) from the time of Nahapāna (pl. III, cols. VIII, IX), of the Andhra king Gotamipata Satakaņi (col. X), of the Andhra king Pulumāyi (col. XI), of the Andhra king Gotamīputa Siriyaña Satakaņi (col. XII), of Nāsik No. 20 (col. XIII), and of the Abhira king Isvarasena (col. XIV), 2nd century A. D.:
Cols. III-V ; cuttings from facsimiles of dated Kusana inscriptions in EI. 1, 371 ff., and 2, 195 f. Col. VI; drawn according to facsimile in B.ASRWI. 2, 128, pl. 14.
Cola. VII-XVI; outtings from facsimiles in B.ASRWI. 4, pl. 51, No. 19 : pl. 52, Nos. 6, 9, 10, 18, 19; pl. 53, Nos. 13, 14; pl. 55, No. 22; pl. 48, No. 3; and tracings for col. XV, from pl. 45, Nos. 5, 6, 11.
Cols. XVII, XVIII; cuttings from facsimiles in B.ASRSI. 1, pl. 62, 63. Cols. XIX, XX; cuttings from facaimile in EI. 1, 1 ff.
The backgrounds of all the outtings, and indistinot strokes, have been touched up. Soale of Plate II. - 0-5 of the cuttings; except 13, II, and the signs in ools. VI, VII, XXIII, XXIV.
which have the same size 4s in the facsimiles. Soale of Plate III. - 07. 1 Compare the following trastworthy facsimiles of Aboka edicts not mentioned in note 6 on page 31 above :B.ASRWI. 2, 98 ff., Girnar; IA. 13, 306 ff., Allahabad; IA. 19, 122 ff., Delhi-Mirat, Allahabad Queen's edict, Allahabad Kosambi edict; IA, 20, 334, Barabar'saves ; IA. 22, 299, Sahasrām and RūppĀth ; EI. 2. 245 6., Mathia and Rāmpūrvā; EI. 2, 366, Sāfici; JA, 1887, I, 498, Bairāt No. I; and the table of letters in B.ASRWI. 4, pl. 5. ? J.RAS. 1895, 865 (pl.).
? C.CAI. pl. 2, 3; pl. 8, No. 1; pl. 10, No. 20.. + C.MG. pl. 10, Nos. 2, 3.
Facsimiles in EI. 2, 366 ff.
C.ASR. 20, pl. 6.
P. GARDNER, Cat. of Ind. Coins Br. Mus., pls. 3, 4. • Pl. in ZDMG. 40, 58 ff.; EL 2, 366 (facsimiles of Stüpa I, Nos, 288, 377, 378). 1. Compare plate in Sixth Oriental Congress, 3, 2, 142.
11 IA. 9, 121. 11 Compare also C.CAI. pl. 4, Now 8-15; pl. 5; pl. 8, No. 2 ff.; pl. 9, Nos. 1-5; . MG. pl. 10, No. 4; B.ASRWI. 4, pl. 44, Bhājā, Nos. 1-6, Kondāne.
15 B. ASRWI. 4. pl. 44, Pitalkhorā, Nos. 1-7; pl. 51, Näsik, No. 1.
