Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t2.18

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⁵¹ E.g., Pandey (PIP 51), who suggests a connection with the Indus Valley script (“The *Brāhmī* was derived from pictographs, ideographs and phonetic signs, the earliest specimens of which are to be found in the Indus Valley inscriptions”), but does not elaborate any further.