On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.20
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c8.20
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c8.20
The signs of Col. II have all been taken from Professor Euting's Cols. 14—17, and represent the chief types on the Aramaic Papyri, which M. J. Halévy⁴ and others believe to be the prototypes of the Kharoṣṭhī. They have been given in my Table chiefly in order to show that they are not suited for the derivation. Col. III gives the oldest forms of the borrowed Kharoṣṭhī letters according to Tafel I of my *Grundriss der Indischen Paläographie*, and Col. IV with the signs, which I consider to be derivatives invented by the Hindus, comes from the same source.