Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s6: 2.6 Undeciphered Scripts
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s6
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2.6 Undeciphered Scripts
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Besides the well-known problem of the Indus script (see 2.2.3.1), there remains a small residue of Indic scripts which are still substantially undeciphered.²²⁹ These include the problematic extreme calligraphic “Ornate Brāhmī” and “shell characters” discussed earlier (2.5.3.2), and also some lesser-known scripts. Notable among these are a script found in Afghanistan which seems to resemble Kharoṣṭhī and which Fussman²³⁰ suggests may have been used to record the Kambojī language, and another one, broadly resembling Brāhmī but of uncertain heritage, found on several terra-cotta seals from various sites (notably Chandraketugaṛh and Tamluk) in West Bengal and Bangladesh.²³¹
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²²⁹ See R. Salomon, “Undeciphered Scripts . . .” (see n. 224), 201–12.
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²³⁰ *BEFEO* 61, 1974, 34.
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²³¹ See, e.g., D. K. Chakravorty, “Some Inscribed Terracotta Sealings from Chandraketugarh,” *JNSI* 39, 1977, 128–34; and Salomon, “Undeciphered Scripts . . .” (see n. 224), 205–7, for further references.