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Posted: 05 Jul 2021

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Bengal Script, a modern descendant of Brahmi script, on a film poster designed by Satyajit Ray, 1960 The title is Devi (The Goddess). The Bengall script uses a mixture of syllabic letters and vowels arranged in an order based on the determined by Indian phoneticians well over 2000 years ago. Some 200 Indian scripts used today derive from the Brahmi script.

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The origins of the modern Indian scripts are unclear. Some Indian and a few non-Indian scholars have tried to trace a link between the un-deciphered script of the Indus Valley Civilization and the earliest Buddhist inscriptions, but since there is a gap of more than 1500 years between the two, this explanation is far-fetched. Most scholars -- Indian and non-Indian -- agree that the Aramaic script was the parent script of one of the earliest Indian scripts, Kharosthi, even though hard evidence of the link is lacking.

The earliest known Indian inscriptions are those of the Emperor Ashoka (c. 270- c 232 BC). They are rock edicts erected in various parts of northern India, writtenin two scripts, Kharoshi and Brahmi, the more important of which is Brahmi. No less than 200 different modern Indian scripts derive, directly or indirectly, from the Brahmi script: that as nearly all Indian scripts, leaving aside those imported into India with Islam. They include Southern scripts used to write Dravidian languages, s well as the northern scripts used to write Sanskrit and its descendants. ` Page 175
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