On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c7.6

c7.6

[53] (1) The comparison must be The identifications are shown in the accompanying Table, kindly drawn for me by Mr. S. Pepper and etched by Messrs Angerer and Göschl of Vienna. The signs of the first two columns have been taken from M. Ph. Berger's Histoire de l'Écriture dans l'Antiquité, pp. 185 and 202 and those of Col. III with the exception of the Tāw from Sinjirli (22. III. b) from Professor Euting's Tabula Scripturae Aramaicae (1890). Among the forms of column IV without asterisks, those opposite the twelfth and the seventeenth Semitic characters [54] have been taken from a plaster cast of Sir A. Cunningham's Eraṇ coin (see also Coins of Ancient India, plate XI, 18) and that opposite the sixteenth character from the word *eṣā* in the Kālsī version, Ed. XIII, 1, l. 37.