On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.82

c5.82

¹ I can only adhere to the traditional date of the great grammarian, which, as we know now, was contained in the ancient Bṛhatkathā, since both Kṣemendra's and Somadeva's Sanskrit translations contain the story of Pāṇini, the pupil of Upavarṣa, who flourished during the reign of Yogananda, the predecessor of Candragupta, Indian Antiquary, vol. I, p. 305. — Pāṇini's Dhātupāṭha gives for the verb *likh* the meaning *akṣaravinyāsa* 'arranging letters' or 'syllables' and thus furnishes, as Geheimrath von Böhtlingk points out to me, another proof for the prevalence of writing in the fourth cent. B. C.