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line graffito, reading: mrA? s^7*<^<37?2
"Together with Thavaya(?)-Devasinga". This formula is well
known from the colophons preserved in the Gilgit mss. (v. HIN-
UBER 1980a: 58—70), often preceded by
The second (SANDER 1968, Pi. 9, alphabet h)
is unusual for this type of script. The normal shape of it is pre-
served in t6rm<ay% ^ (SANDER 1968, PI. 21, alphabet m),
while as written in is a relic of the calligraphic ornate
script, as to be seen in DANI's book on Chilas, No. 60, line 2
L?r^g%r%y% (DANI 1985, No. 60: 79, 78 (transcription)). The
only word the meaning of which is not clear is Is it a
title? Most of the a^yxms of this inscription are very similar to
the Sarada types: especially the square-shaped M 1-1, which
looks in the Proto-Sarada a bit more acute angled , ya
having the modern form, the older shape of which is still
preserved in the earlier Proto-Sarada documents (cf. above
p. Ill), and -6* in 72g<? having no connection with the 72-
(SANDER 1968, PI. 25, 24, alphabet m and n). The script of the
graffito represents just the border-type between Proto-Sarada and
Sarada^. If we date it according to J.Ph. VOGEL (1911: 46f.,
PI. XV), who dates the earliest Sarada documents in the middle
of the ninth century A.D., it cannot be much older than the
second half of the eighth century A.D.
The graffiti of "Thor North" represent a variety of Brahmi types
used in Chilas and its vicinity from the third to about the end of
the eighth century A.D. They all belong to local styles, and were
probably engraved by inhabitants of this region, and not by
travelling Indians passing through the sacred places near Chilas on
their way to Central Asia and China.
29 appears on another rock (No. 70) at Thor North
written in the same type of script.
30 DANI 1983, No. 64 (83, 84), No. 65 (83, 86), No. 67 (85, 88), No. 68
(87, 90). If one compares these inscriptions with the Sarada inscriptions
of the Chamba state (VOGEL 1911), it becomes impossible to under-
stand how DANI can speak of "Proto-Nagari" or "medieval inscrip-
tion", or simply "late inscription". DANI writes on p. 72: "It is strange
that $arada script is not adopted here". In fact, the inscriptions are
written in Sarada script.
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"Together with Thavaya(?)-Devasinga". This formula is well
known from the colophons preserved in the Gilgit mss. (v. HIN-
UBER 1980a: 58—70), often preceded by
The second (SANDER 1968, Pi. 9, alphabet h)
is unusual for this type of script. The normal shape of it is pre-
served in t6rm<ay% ^ (SANDER 1968, PI. 21, alphabet m),
while as written in is a relic of the calligraphic ornate
script, as to be seen in DANI's book on Chilas, No. 60, line 2
L?r^g%r%y% (DANI 1985, No. 60: 79, 78 (transcription)). The
only word the meaning of which is not clear is Is it a
title? Most of the a^yxms of this inscription are very similar to
the Sarada types: especially the square-shaped M 1-1, which
looks in the Proto-Sarada a bit more acute angled , ya
having the modern form, the older shape of which is still
preserved in the earlier Proto-Sarada documents (cf. above
p. Ill), and -6* in 72g<? having no connection with the 72-
(SANDER 1968, PI. 25, 24, alphabet m and n). The script of the
graffito represents just the border-type between Proto-Sarada and
Sarada^. If we date it according to J.Ph. VOGEL (1911: 46f.,
PI. XV), who dates the earliest Sarada documents in the middle
of the ninth century A.D., it cannot be much older than the
second half of the eighth century A.D.
The graffiti of "Thor North" represent a variety of Brahmi types
used in Chilas and its vicinity from the third to about the end of
the eighth century A.D. They all belong to local styles, and were
probably engraved by inhabitants of this region, and not by
travelling Indians passing through the sacred places near Chilas on
their way to Central Asia and China.
29 appears on another rock (No. 70) at Thor North
written in the same type of script.
30 DANI 1983, No. 64 (83, 84), No. 65 (83, 86), No. 67 (85, 88), No. 68
(87, 90). If one compares these inscriptions with the Sarada inscriptions
of the Chamba state (VOGEL 1911), it becomes impossible to under-
stand how DANI can speak of "Proto-Nagari" or "medieval inscrip-
tion", or simply "late inscription". DANI writes on p. 72: "It is strange
that $arada script is not adopted here". In fact, the inscriptions are
written in Sarada script.
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