Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s1.t3.9

c7.s1.t3.9

³⁰ Fred W. Householder Jr., *Classical Journal* 54, 1958–59, 382. Recently Peter T. Daniels (*JAOS* 110, 1990, 730) has suggested the name “abugida,” “from the Ethiopian word for the auxiliary order of consonants in the signary.” This term, however, is more likely to appeal to Semitists than to Indologists, who might prefer a name like “*akṣara* script,” this being the Indic term which would come closest to a designation of this type of writing.