Brahmi
ब्राह्मी brahmiThe earliest deciphered Indian script, known from the edicts of Ashoka in the third century BCE; the ancestor of nearly all the scripts of South and Southeast Asia, devanagari among them.
Where this term appears
- Who is Krishna? Deities
Its Brahmi inscription, in Prakrit, records that the column is a Garuda-dhvaja , a standard topped with Garuda, the eagle mount associated with Vishnu and Vasudeva, and that it was set up by Heliodorus , son of…
- Against the Page Treatise
…e spoken-derived language of administration, and in two main scripts: Brahmi across most of the empire, the ancestor of nearly all later Indian scripts, and Kharosthi in the northwest.
- Leaf and Bark Treatise
The Gilgit manuscripts are written in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, in a Gupta and post-Gupta Brahmi script, and are usually dated to around the fifth and sixth centuries CE.
- The Branching Hand Treatise
Most of those edicts are in a script called Brahmi , the angular letterform that spread across the bulk of the subcontinent.
- The Kena Upanishad: by whom? Treatise
It calls itself, internally, the Brahmi Upanishad , the teaching of Brahman (4.7).
- The Machine Made of Memory Treatise
The Brahmi script is attested from at least the third century BCE in the inscriptions of the emperor Ashoka, and the culture used it freely for edicts, accounts, grammar, poetry, and eventually for vast librari…
- How We Know: Inscriptions, Manuscripts and Archaeology History
The year before, the scholar Christian Lassen had fixed some Brahmi letters using bilingual coins of the Indo-Greek kings, Greek on one face and Indian script on the other, an accidental Rosetta Stone struck in…
- The city in the mirror Treatise
… great intellectual feats of the age: the decipherment of the ancient Brahmi script, the lost alphabet in which the edicts of Ashoka were written, unlocking centuries of India's own history that Indians and Eur…