On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c7.s3.25

c7.s3.25

According to the dates of the Semitic inscriptions, which can come into question, those of Mesa's stone and the Assyrian weights, this period must fall somewhere between *circiter* 890 and 750 B. C., probably more towards the lower than the remoter of the two limits. Hence the *terminus a quo* for the introduction of the prototypes of the Brāhma letters lies between the beginning of the ninth century and the middle of the eighth, or about 800 B. C. And it seems to me that some further considerations make it probable that their actual importation took place at this early time.