On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.32
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c8.32
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c8.32
No 1. The identity of *A* with *Aleph* is evident enough (Thomas, Taylor, Halévy). The long stretched shape of the Kharoṣṭhī letter, which leans to the right, makes it in my opinion more probable that it is a simplification of a sign like that from the Saqqārah inscription in Col. I, a, than that it should be connected with the diminutive letters in Col. I, b and in Col. II, which are inclined the other way.