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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s1.t1.8

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s1.t1.8

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⁶ The list, according to the edition of S. Lefmann (Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1902), I.125–6 reads:
(1) Brāhmī (2) Kharoṣṭī (3) Puṣkarasārī (4) Aṅgalipi (5) Vaṅgalipi (6) Magadhalipi (7) Maṅgalyalipi (8) Aṅgulīyalipi (9) Sakārilipi (10) Brahmavalilipi (11) Pāruṣyalipi (12) Drāviḍalipi (13) Kirātalipi (14) Dākṣiṇyalipi (15) Ugralipi (16) Saṃkhyālipi (17) Anulomalipi (18) Avamūrdhalipi (19) Daradalipi (20) Khāṣyalipi (21) Cīnalipi (22) Lūnalipi (23) Hūnalipi (24) Madhyākṣaravistaralipi (25) Puṣpalipi (26) Devalipi (27) Nāgalipi (28) Yakṣalipi (29) Gandharvalipi (30) Kinnaralipi (31) Mahoragalipi (32) Asuralipi (33) Garuḍalipi (34) Mṛgacakralipi (35) Vāyasarutalipi (36) Bhaumadevalipi (37) Antarīkṣadevalipi (38) Uttarakurudvīpalipi (39) Aparagauḍānīlipi (40) Pūrvavidehalipi (41) Utkṣepalipi (42) Nikṣepalipi (43) Vikṣepalipi (44) Prakṣepalipi (45) Sāgaralipi (46) Vajralipi (47) Lekhapratilekhalipi (48) Anudrutalipi (49) Śāstrāvartā [*lipi] (50) Gaṇanāvartalipi (51) Utkṣepāvartalipi (52) Nikṣepāvartalipi (53) Pādalikhitalipi (54) Dviruttarapadasandhilipi (55) Yāvaddāśottarapadasandhilipi (56) Madhyāhāriṇīlipi (57) Sarvaruta-saṃgrahaṇīlipi (58) Vidyānulomāvimiśritalipi (59) Ṛṣitapastaptā rocamānā [*lipi] (60) Dharaṇīprekṣiṇīlipi (61) Gaganaprekṣiṇīlipi (62) Sarvauṣadhiniṣyandā [*lipi] (63) Sarvasārasaṃgrahaṇī [*lipi] (64) Sarvabhūtarutagrahaṇī [*lipi]. The names of the scripts vary considerably in different editions; compare, e.g., the list as given in Rājendralāla Mitra's edition (Bibliotheca Indica no. 15 [Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1877], 143–4).