On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.109
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c5.109
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c5.109
² See, St. Julien, Mémoires etc., I, 72 and note, where, however, the translation has "un livre en douze sections" and the note alleges that the book was a syllabary, composed by Brahman and called Siddhavastu. In a letter to me, quoted in the first edition of this essay, Prof. J. Legge has pointed out that the Chinese text has nothing about "a book", but merely "12 *chang*" or tables.