On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.37
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c8.37
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c8.37
No 6. *Va* has preserved, as all previous writers have acknowledged, exactly the form of the *Waw* in the Teima inscription, which re-occurs on various later documents as the Ostraka from Elephantine and the Cilician Satrap coins, and which is foreshadowed by the letter of the ancient Assyrian Weights in Euting's Tabula Col. 6. The Papyri again offer a more advanced round form, which is common in the Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions, incised during the first and second centuries of our era.