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INDIAN PALEOGRAPHY.
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a misinterpretation of the curved ta (compare the sign of B.'s No. 1464), also kr (compare the sign of B.'s No. 1645 ff.) or hva (XXIII).
6 = phra (XIX, XXI, XXVI; B., Bh.) or phu (K.); and with intentional differentiation, rphus or rphru (XXIV; K.) ; with a misinterpretation of an old pha, also ghra (XXII); and with dialectic softening of the tenuis, bhra (XXIII; compare B., p. LIV).
7 = gra (XIX, XXI, XXVI; Bh.) or gră (XXV; B., Bh., K.); with intentional differentiation and misinterpretation of the ra-stroke, rggå (XXIV; P.); with misinterpretation of ga, bhra (XX; compare B., p. LIV) or ña (XXIII; compare B., LIV).
8 = hra (XIX, XXI, XXIII, XXVI; B., Bh. ; partly with irregular addition of the ra-stroke to the hook of ha) or hrá (XXV; B., Bh., K.); and with intentional differentiation, thra (K.) or rhra (XXIV; K.).
9 = 0 (XIX, XXI, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI; B., Bh.) or O. (XXV; K.).
10 = nr (XIX), formed out of the ancient thū (cols. IV-VI) through the opening of the circle of tha; or da (XX, XXIII; B., Bh.), the Nepalese representative of older la cols. X, XI; compare IA. 6, 47), which likewise is a derivative from thü; or, especially in Nāgari MSS.,! (XXI, XXV, XXVI; Bh., K.), through a misinterpretation of la; and with intentional differentiation, r! (XXIV; K.).
20 = tha) or tha (XIX-XXI, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI; B., Bh., K.); or with intentional differentiation, rtha and rtha (XXV; K.).
30 = la or la (XIX-XXI, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI; B., Bh., K., P.); or with intentional [76] differentiation, rla and rla (XXV; K.).
40 = pta and ptā (XX, XXI, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI; B., Bh., K.); or with intentional differentiation, rpta and rpia (XXV; K.).
50 = Ananāsika (? BHAGVĀNLĀL), but corresponding only in col. XXIV. to an actually traceable form of this nasal (I A. 6, 47); occasionally turned round (XX; B.: XXIII ; K.).
60 = ou, frequent in Nepalese MSS. (XX, XXI, XXIII,), or thu, regular in Nāgari MSS. (XXV, XXVI; Bh., K); and with intentional differentiation, rthu (XXIV; K.).
70 = cu, frequent in Nepalese MSS. (XX, XXI, XXIII; B., Bh.) or tha, regular in Nagari MSS. (XXV, XXVI); and with intentional differentiation, rthi (XXIV; K.).
80 = Upadhmāniya with one central bar (XXIII, XXVI; B., Bh.: compare plate IV, 46. 111), or later modified forms of that siga (XXI, XXIV; Bh., K.), which appear also in MSS. (K.) and in inscriptions (plate IV, 46, XXIII).
90 = Upadhmānīya with two cross-shaped bars (XXI, XXIII, XXVI; compare plate VII, 46, V, VI), and cursive forms of that sign (XXIV), or perhaps Jihvāmūliya (XXV; Bh.) derived from the ma-like sign of plate VII, 46, III, XIII.
100 = su in Nagari MSS. (XXIV, XXV; Bh., K.); or A in Nepalese MSS., owing to a misinterpretation of su (XX, XXIII, B., Bh.); or lr in Nepalese and Bengāli MSS., the result of another misinterpretation (XXI, XXVI; B., Bh.).
200 = si in Nāgari MSS. (XXIV, XXV; Bh., K.), or Ä in Nepalese MSS. (XX, XXIII; B., Bh.), or lu in Nepalese and Bengali MSS. (XXVI; Bh., B.).
300 = si-a in Nāgari MSS. (XXIV, XXV; Bh. : read stā by K.), or A-a in Nepalese MSS. (XX).
400 = si-o (XXV; read sto by K.) in Nāgari MSS.
1 For this pha, oompere plate VI, 33, V. • Common also in the Bower MS. PETERSON'S gha is due to a misreading of the old tha. • PETERRON'S Thu is a misreading.
