Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s6.1

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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