Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t2.14

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Since the discovery in the 1920s and subsequent decades of extensive written artifacts of the Indus Valley civilization dating back to the third and second millennia B.C., several scholars have proposed that the presumptive indigenous prototype of the Brāhmī script must have been the Indus Valley script or some unknown derivative thereof. This possibility was first proposed⁴⁸ by S. Langdon in 1931,⁴⁹ supported by G. R. Hunter,⁵⁰ and endorsed by several later authorities,⁵¹ most significantly by D. C. Sircar.⁵²