Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s3.t2.10

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The decline of Kharoṣṭhī around the third century a.d. can presumably be attributed to historical developments of this time. With the decline and fall of the Kuṣāṇa empire, the center of political power in South Asia began to shift from the northwest toward northern and northeastern India. This development presumably reduced the importance of Kharoṣṭhī as the regional script of the former area, with the eventual result that it was supplanted entirely by the pan-Indian Brāhmī.