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D.-The alphabet of the Pallava Prākrit land-grants ; Plate III. The highly cursive writing of the Prākrit land-grants of the Pallava kings Vijayabuddhavarman and Sivuskandavarman from Kanci (Conjeverom) in the Tamil districts, shows in its ductus a certain relationship to the Jaggayyapeta inscriptions. But it is not doubtful that these documents are much later, thongh it is for the present impossible to fix their dates exactly. The use of Prakrit for official porposes perhaps indicates that they are not later than the first half of the 4th century A. D. The broad E (5, XX) with the rudimentary vertical to the right (compare pl. VII, 6, XI ff.), the da with a tail in ndam (40, XX; compare pl. VII, 19, IV f.). the subscribed tha open on the right in ttha (41, XIX ; compare pl. VII, 45, XX), and the constantly looped o in lo (33, XX; compare pl. VII, 34, III f., XIII, XVII) point to the later period. IV. THE NORTHERN ALPHABETS FROM ABOUT A, D. 350.3
21. - Definition and varieties. [46] By, the term "northern alphabets" I understand with BURGERA, Fleet, and others, that large group of epigraphic and literary scripts, which from about A. D. 350 conquers the whole
1 Compare fucsimiles in !A. 9, 200, ET. 1, 1 ff. • Preparation of Plates IV, V, and VI :
PLATE IV.
Cuttings from facsimiles. Cols. I, II, III; from FLET, Gupta Inscriptions Cols. XIII, XIV; from F GI (CJI. 3), pl. 41, A. (CII. 3). pl. 1.
Cola. XV, XVi; from plute at Et. 1, 10. Col. IV, from F.GI(CII. 3), pl. 5.
Cul. XVII; from plate at IA. 9, 172, Nos, 7, 8, 9, Cols, V, VI; from F.GI (CII.3). pl. 9, A.
Cols. XVIII, XIX ; from F.GI (CII. 3), pl. 28. Col. VII; from F.GI (CIT. 3). pl. 9, B.
Col. XX; from plate at IA. 19, 234. Col. VIII; from plate at EI. 1, 238.
Col. XXI, from plate at IA. 15, 112, Col. IX ; from F.GI (CII. 8), pl 13.
Co. XX!! ; from plate at IA, 11, 108. Col. X : froni F.GI (CII. 3). pl. 22.
Col. XXIII; from plate at IA. 15, 140. Cole. XI, XII; from F.GI (CII. 9), pl. 80 B, and 31, A, B.
Pute V. Col. I; from photolithograph of impressions of EI. Col. XI; from plate at IA. 6, 192.
Col. XII; from plate at 1A. 18, 11. The other columns cut from facsimiles:
Col. XIII; from p'ato at EI. 1, 284. Col. II : from plate at EJ, 1, 160
Col. XIV; from plato at IA, 16, 205. Col. III; from plate at EI. 1, 242.
Col. XV: from plate at EI. 2, 297. Col. IV : from platos at 1A, 6, 65, and 11, 158.
Col. XVI; from Bhatnagar Sapkr. and Prik. LCol. V; from unpublished facsimiles of IA. 13. scriptions, plates LO, 41. 184.
Oul. XVII; from plate at IA. 16, 22.5 Col. VI ; from plate at TA. 17, 310.
Col. XVIII; from plate at El. 1, 308. Col. VII ; from unpublished facsimiles of EI. 1. Col. XIX; from plate at El. 2, 850. 162.
Col. XX; from plate at IA, 19, 130. Col. VIIT; from plate at El. 1, 77.
Col. XXI; from plates at IA. 11, 71, 357 Col. IX ; from plate at El. 2, 120.
Col. XXII; from plate at IA, 16, 254. Col. X; from plate at IA. 6, 50.
Col. XXIII; from plate at EI. 1, 84. PLATZ VL.
Cottings from facsimiles. Cola. I, II, III, IV, from plates in Hoxente's Bower 1 Col. XIII; from BENDALL, op. cit., pl. 1, 3. 18., parts 1, 2.
Col. XIV; from Apeod. Oxon., Ar. Series, 1, 1, Cols. V, VI, VII, and IX; from Anecd. Oxon., Ar.
pl. 4 Ber., 1, 3, plate i, cole, 1, 2, 3. .
Cole. XV, XVI, XVII; from LEUMANN, photogr. Col. VIII; from plate at Vienna Oriental Congress, of Decoan College Collection, 1880-81, No. 57: 7, XV, Aryan Section, 127 ff.
XVI ; 14 and 16, XV; 18, XV, XVI, XVII; 19 and 28, Col. IX; see above, with gols. V, VI, and VII.
XV, XVI: 24, XV; 27, XV, XVI: 35, 37, and 41, XVII,
added from LEUMANN'S Viberivabyaka, pl. 35; 7, Col. X: from BENDALL, Cat. Buddh. MSS. pl. 2,
XVII, and 8, 9, 10, XV, and 12, 14, 15, XVI, added 4 and Berlin Oriental Congress, Indian Section, pl. 2, 1.
from photogr. of the Royal Asiatio Society's Gapa. Col. XI: from BENDALL, op. cit., pl. 3, 1.
ratnamabodadhi. Col XII; from Berlin Oriental Congress, Indian Cols. XVIII, XIX; from plates at Vienna Oriental Seation, pl. 2, 2, .
Congress, Aryan Section, 1J1 ff. Scale of the three plates = two-thirds of the facsimiles.
F.CI (CII. 3), 31., and passim.
