Showing all 2 books
Earliest written records of India in the historical period, Asokan inscriptions hold the key to the story of riting in this country. These epigraphs have been written in Greek, Aramaic, Kharosthi, and Brahmi. Among these the origins of the first three scripts are not disputed but the beginnings of Brahmi elude the grasp of historians. Majority of western scholars derive Brahmi's origin from one of these scripts - Hieratic, cuneiform, Phoenician, Aramaic and ...