Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t6.53
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t6.53
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In the northeast, the local derivative of Siddhamātṛkā was the script known as Proto-Bengali or Gauḍī, which was current from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.¹¹⁷ This, in turn, gave rise to the modern eastern scripts, namely, Bengali-Assamese, Oriya,¹¹⁸ and Maithili, which became clearly differentiated around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.