On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.10

c8.10

The custom itself, no doubt, has to be explained by a strong infusion of Aramaeans, or of men trained in the learning of the Aramaeans, in the lower grades of the Persian Civil Service, among the scribes, accountants, treasurers and mint-masters, and this is no more than might be expected, when a race like the Persian suddenly comes into the possession of a very large empire and becomes the heir of an older civilisation.