Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t3.6
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t3.6
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⁶¹ See, for example, SAI 109–11. Diringer’s account in *The Alphabet*, 335, of the adherents of the derivation of Brāhmī from Greek is inaccurate and misconstrues the views of some of the persons cited, notably of Émile Senart, who really suggested (in his review of Cunningham’s *Inscriptions of Asoka*, *JA*, ser. 7, vol. 13, 1879, 535) nothing more than an “influence grecque . . . extérieure et secondaire” on the monumental character of the script.