![]() ![]() Again in the 4th decade of the thirteenth century of the Vikrama era we find the western variety in the Bodh-Gayā inscription of Jayacchandra. we find the western variety in the Govindpur (near Nawada in the Gayā District) stone inscription of the poet Gangādhara which is now in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. Again, with the extension of the Gāhaḍavāla Empire towards the East the eastern limit of the use of the western variety of the North-Eastern alphabet also extended eastwards in the century. We shall, simply, note the changes in the forms of the letters as they pass through this period. In this century, it will not be necessary to consider these alphabets used in the different inscriptions, as our narrative of the development of the Bengali alphabet is almost complete. ![]() The final changes in which took place after the Muhammadan conquest of Northern India.
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