On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.26

c5.26

Again the Mahāsutasoma Jātaka mentions a correspondence by means of letters (*paṇṇa*) between a teacher of Takkasilā and his former pupils,² and the Kāma Jātaka³ narrates, how a prince, who had renounced the throne and lived in a village, was asked to write and actually wrote a letter (*paṇṇa*) to his brother, the reigning king, requesting a remission of the royal taxes for the people who had hospitably received him.⁴