On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.65

c5.65

In the portions of the Nikāyas, which I have read, I have met with fewer references to writing. But they are not entirely wanting. Thus the Brahmajāla Sutta 14 and the Sāmaññaphala 49, mention a game, called *akkharikā*,¹ which according to Buddhaghoṣa means “reading letters in the air or in the vault of the sky”, see also Childers, Pali Dict. s. v. *piṭṭhī*.