The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Second Series) April 1928

n As in the case of the Suvarnamukhari there is in the description -of the Cauvery another agreeable instance of the harmonious blending of the beautiful in nature with the beautiful in human experiences. [...] ( 4t4r4-1-1-7.3*.5-4-k3Erifrg I ) When the Hamsa is on the wing once again the Lord of the Ocean in grateful remembrance of the good done to him by the sons of the Great Sagara a renowned ancestor of Rama may now perhaps offer him the messenger of Rama some places of rest on the winged mountains under his protection. [...] Unity is vertical and ten horizontal ; the hundred stands while the thousand lies : and tbe thousand and the ten look equally and so also the ten thousand and the hundred.- From the above brief survey it is evident that the different early systems of notations obtaining in different parts of the world contained the germs of the principle of the modern notation which was destined to develop in Indi [...] They reappear in the Nanaghat cave inscriptions of the second century B. C. * The term Kharoshti ' means literally one having the ass's lip ' and therefore the notation may be either the invention of a sage with the ass's lip or the notation current among barbarians contemptuously termed by the Aryans as those having the ass's lip."261 The inscriptions in the rock-cave up the Nanaghat hill contain [...] Some symbols25 are the same as in the usual cave inscriptions : while others26 resemble the figures found in the Nasik caves ; the symbo127 for 80' is the same as the one found in the coins of Virdama and Vijaya Simha Kshatrapa of Saurashtra; the symbols28 for 100 and 1 000 are new ; higher numbers arc formed on the principle of multiplicative adjunction noticed to some extent in the Kharoshti not