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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
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1, 26), well below the boundary line, in the southern area. The same southern form, from an inscription at Eran (Lat. 24° 5', F. GI, No. 20, p. 91, Plate xii B, 1, 1), is shown in (b). Eran is just on the boundary line of the two areas; and from arother inscription (F. GI. No. 36, p. 158, Plate xxiv A, 1. 2) at the same place comes the northern form without the projection, shown in (e). The same northern form, in two slight variations, is shown in (f) and (8), coming from the same place Khôh (Lat. 21° 13', F, GI, No. 27, p. 121, Plate xvii, 1. 9, and No. 28, p. 125, Plate xviii, 1. 12). From further south come the Pallaya and Kadamba forms, shown in (c) and (d); and from further north comes the Kushana form, shown in (h).
In the second place, there is the characteristic difference in the form of the vowels * and ů, in the akshara, or syllables, ru and rů, which are shown in the 7th and 9th traverses of Table II. In Parts I-III the short vowel u is attached to the foot of the consonant, but in Parts V-VII to its middle. The long vowel ú is indicated in Parts I-III, by adding a stroke above, but in Part VI, by adding a semicircle, to its own particular symbol for rs respectively. For Parts V and VII, unfortunately, no examples are available ; but their agreement, in this respect, with Part VI may be presumed. On rcferring again to the
Tables III and VII in Bühler's Indian Palæography, it will be seen that the forms used in Parts V-VII are peculiar to the southern, but those in Parts I-III to the northern area. Both forms, the southern and northern,
Fig. 13. are shown in Fig. 13. Well within the
Nort southern area occurs the southern form (a) from the same above-mentioned inscription at Mâliya (about Lat. 21° 31', F. GI. No. 38, p. 165, Plate xxiv,
South
1. 3); also the similar southern form
Jo
Jo
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(6), from an inscription at Junagadh (Lat. 20° 31'; F. GI, No. 14, p. 61, Plate viii, 1. 29), as well as (c) from an
Forms of ru andra in the northern and southern areas. inscription at Rajim (Lat. 20° 58', F. GI, No. 81, p. 295. Plate xiv, 1. 12). The strictly southern character of these three inscriptions is proved by the fact that they all exhibit the distinctly southern form of m (Fig. 9 b). Tre Mâliya inscription (Plate xxiv, 11, 12, 16) shows the southern forms (e) ard (f) of ri. On the other hand, we have, well within the northern area, the northern form (i) of ru in inscriptions at Kahaum (Lat. 26° 16', F. GI. No. 15, p. 67, Plate ix A, ll. 8, 12), and at Irder (Lab. 28° 12', F. GI. No. 16, p. 71, Plate ix B, 1. 6), and the similar forms (k) at Nagarjuni (Lat. 25° 0'), (1) at Mandasor (Lat. 24° 3'), and (m) at Mathura (Lat. 27° 30'; F. GI. Nos. 50, 33, 63, pp. 227, 147, 263, Plates xxxi, 1. 1, xxi B, 1. 8, xxxixA, 1. 3). The northern form (n) of rů appears in an inscription at Udayagiri (Lat. 23° 32' F.GI, No. 61, p. 259, Plate xxxviii, 1. 7) and with a slight difference (o) at Bodhgaya (Lat. 24° 41', F. GI, No. 71, p. 277, Plate xli, 1. 13). Both these inscriptions are on the border line; but on that line also the southern forms of u and rů are found side by side with the northern. Thus at Khôh (Lat. 24° 23') both forms of ru occur : the southern (d) (F. GI, No. 22, p. 103, Plate xiii, II. 5, 11, and No. 25, p. 114, Plate XvB, 11, 7, 13), and the northern (i) (F. GI, No. 27, Plate xviii, 11. 6. 10; No. 28, Plate xviii, 1-6; No. 29, Plate xix A, 1, 13, and No. 31, Plate xx, 1. 6); and what is particularly to be noted, the southern form occurs here in conjunction with the northern form of m (Fig. 9c). Similarly both forms of rů are seen at Manda sôr (Lat. 24° 3'), the
