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Mirat, Delhi-Sivälik, Allahabad Kosambi edict, and Allahabad Queen's edict), and (6) che cursive da in cols. VII, IX (Girnär, Jangada, &c., rarely). - (26) The original dha of cols. V-VII appears only in Delhi-Sivālik (rarely) and in the Jangada separate edicts (constantly).
(28, 29) The angular pa and pha of col. XII. and col. VI. occurs here and there in varions versions. - (30) Add the ba of the comparative table, page 11 above, No. 2, V, a, which is not rare in Kälsi and other versions. - (31) The secondary bha with the straight stroke on the right, col, XVI, and that with the rounded back, col. VI (Jaagada separate edicts), appear also in Bharahut (constantly), Säñci (often), Barabar, and Kälsi. - (32) The secondary ma with the semicircle at the top occurs throughout in tho northern inscriptions, except in the Sohgaura copper-plate, which offers a ma with an open square, similar to that of Siddapura, cols. XI, XII. The older ma with the angle above the circle, cols. VIII-X, is & southern form, and is confined to Girnir (exclusively) and Dhauli and Jangada (rarely).
(33) The notched ya in cols. IV, V, VII, XI, is used either constantly or chiefly in DelhiSivālik, Delhi-Mirat, Mathia, Radhia, Rāmpūrvā, Nigliva, Paderia, and Kälsi. It is also very common in Dhauli, Jangada, and Siddāpura. But in Girnar the ya with the curve below is the usual one, cols. VIII, X, XII, besides which that with the angle, col. IX, is found occasionally. In writing the notched ya, the left half of the sign has been made first, and the right half has been added afterwards. In the ya with the curve bolow, the vertical and the curve have been drawn separately, as may be seen from iyan in No. 1 of the Siddapura inscriptions, edict I, line 4. - (34) Add the forms of ra from Girnār given in the comparative table on page 11 above, No. 20, V, a and c. The corkscrew-like ra of Ghasundi, col. XVI, and the tertiary, almost straight-lined, form of Rūpnāth (between cols. VII, VIII), seem to be northern cursive forms of the letter. - (35) The angalar la of cols. III, V, appears occasionally in most versions, whereas the highly cursive form in col. VII. is confined to the Jangada separate edicts.-(36) Add the modern-looking va of the comparative table on page 7 above, No. 19 (Kälsi). The va of Siddāpura in col. XII, flattened below, and the triangular one of Ghasundi in col. XVI, appear oocasionally in other versions. The va of col. IX, which resembles a ca turned round from right to left, is found also in Vesaganne, Sohgaura, line 2.
(37) Add the broad-backed sa of the comparative table on page 11, No. 21, V, c; and compare the sa in Kälsi edict XIII, 1, lines 35, 37, 38; 2, lines 17, 19.- (38) The conjectural reading of the signs of Kälsi in cols. II, III, is based on SENART's Inscriptions de Piyadasi, 1, 33 f. The sa from which the later forms have been derived is that of col. XVI.-(39) The primary sa with the straight side-limb has been preserved only in the south (Girnār and Siddapura). The cursive form in col. VII. occurs also in Kälsi.
(40) Add the probably primary ha of Siddāpura in the comparative table on page 11 above, No. 5, V, a, which [37] is found also in Kalsi. The cursive ha of col. Vil is confined to the Jaugada separate edicts; a somewhat different carsive occurs in mahamäta, Allababad Kosambi edict, line 1.
(41) A certain la is not found in the known inscriptions of the 3rd century, as the li of Sāñci, in col. XVIII, belongs without doubt to the 2nd century B. C. But it is possible that the da with the dot, 20, col. VI (Radhia), has to be read ļa. The sign appears in Delhi-Sivālik, Mathia, and Radhia (edict V) in the representative of the Sanskrit dudi or duli, and in Mathia and Radhia in the representative of dvädaga, which in Pāli usually becomes duvādara. The dot may be, as in kha and ja, a substitute for a circle. If such a modification of da was really used for !a, the sign must have been derived from the angalar da nearly in the same manner as the later !a was framed ont of the ronnd-backed da (ree above, $ 4, B, 6).
