Vol. VI, No. 8.] The Ghagrahati (Kotwalipara) Grant. 495 
[N.8.] 
which no acute angle can be traced’’; but my scrutiny of this 
grant does not support this statement, and letters like these 
in shape are found in grant C. I need not dilate on this 
statement. : 
He deals next with the letter la (p. 431). Its form here is 
the later western shape, and it is also found in grant B, where 
for instance we may compare laddha? (I. 3), kale (I. 4), Gopala 
(I. 5), etc. The earlier western shape is more prevalent in 
grant C, in which the left limb of J is not carried to the top of 
and has been discussed above (p. 478). 
Seventhly, Babu R. D. Banerji refers (p. 432) to the word 
parkkattt (1. 18). He objects to the form of the pa as peculiar, 
and says, it ‘‘ does not resemble the remaining ones, which are 
usually rectangular in form, seldom showing an acute angle.’’ 
This p however has the same shape as that in pravarttaniya 
pr ‘ 
(1. 12), Swpratika and paiti (1. 17) and pitrbhi (1. 22). He adds, 
i of pa is to be found in 
23)! et 
but the upper & is not 
looped as shown in the plate published with his article, and 
only the second is looped. Precisely this form of doubled & i 
found in the Bodh Gaya inscription of 588-9; and therefore hi 
0 
432) needs 
fore in the forms of pa and rkka in this grant. 
I have now considered all his criticisms on the 
this grant, and 
trusts 
script in 
ave shown that the features which he dis. 
are to be found in other almost contemporaneous inscrip- 
