Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal The Palæography of the Hathigumpha and the Nanaghat Inscriptions

In bha in the majority of cases the length of both straight lines in the lower part of the letter is not the same. [...] The other form is the transitional form between the Maurya and the Kusana ones in which the lower part of the letter consists of a triangle while the upper part consists of two curves ; cf. [...] In the third form though the height of the vertical line on the right is greater than that of the left limb of the letter the lower part has become rectangular cf. [...] The form of la used in the majority of cases is of the old Maurya type in which the straight line in the right half of the letter is still higher than the left limb ; cf. [...] The second form however is observable in the word kahapana both in the first and the second part of the inscription in which the height of the left vertical line is certainly much less.