On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.73

c8.73

These remarks at all events suffice to show that a rational derivation of the Kharoṣṭhī from the Aramaic of the Akhaemenian Period, based on fixed principles, is perfectly possible and the attempt has this advantage that it shows some letters, as *da*, *ka* and *ta*, to be closely connected with Mesopotamian forms, which *a priori* might be expected to have been used by the writers of the Satraps, ruling over the extreme east of the Persian empire. If the ruins of the eastern Persian provinces are ever scientifically explored and ancient Aramaic inscriptions are found there, forms much closer to the Kharoṣṭhī will no doubt turn up.