[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c21.74 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.74 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.74 - **Language:** English ### [c21.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.74) Two recensions of the Fourteen Rock Edicts, inscribed on rocks at places near the north-western frontier of India, were executed in the script locally current, now generally known to scholars as the Kharoshṭhī; which is a modified form of an ancient Aramaic alphabet, written from right to left, introduced into the Panjāb during the period of Persian domination in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. All the other inscriptions are incised in one or other variety of the early Brāhmī alphabet, from which the Devanāgarī and other forms of the modern script in Northern and Western India have been evolved, and which is read from left to right.² - [Previous: c21.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.73) - [Next: c21.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.75) - [Up: c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.74) · Pramāṇa