On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c3.27
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c3.27
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c3.27
Recent utterances of Professors O. Donner, Konow, Ludwig, Macdonell, Oldenberg, Windisch and others on writing in India and on the Indian alphabets make it apparent that the object, for which the Indian Studies No. III and its supplement were written Brāhmī with its forms, pointing partly to very archaic and partly to transitional North-Semitic characters, may at any moment require modifications on account of new epigraphic discoveries in India or in Western Asia. And important epigraphic discoveries will, no doubt, soon be made in India, since of late ancient sites have been identified, which were famous places of pilgrimage before the times of the Mauryas.